Taha Yassin Ramadan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Taha Yassin Ramadan

Iraqi politician

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1938

Place of Birth: Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq

Date of Death: 20-Mar-2007

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Iraq

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi (Arabic: ?? ????? ????? ?????????; 22 February 1938 – 20 March 2007) was an Iraqi Kurd, who served as one of the three Vice Presidents of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003. Following the fall of Saddam's government, Taha Yasin Ramadan was placed on the U.S.
list of most-wanted Iraqis and depicted as the Ten of Diamonds in the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.
He was captured on August 19, 2003, in Mosul, by fighters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and handed over to US forces.He was one of the defendants in the Iraq Special Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial.
On November 5, 2006, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
On December 26, 2006, the appeals court sent the case file back to the Tribunal, saying the sentence was too lenient and demanding a death sentence. On February 12, 2007, he was sentenced to death by hanging.
His sentence was carried out on the fourth anniversary of Iraq's US invasion, before dawn on March 20, 2007.