Abdullah Sallum al-Samarra'i ( Arabic : ??? ???? ???? ????????? ; 1932?1996) was an Iraqi Ba'athist politician and leading member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq . He was a member of the Regional Command from 1964 to 1970, when he was expelled.

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He was born in the city of Samarra ^[1] in 1932 to a lower middle class family. He graduated from Baghdad University with a B.A. and an M.A. in Islamic history . Early on he was an active member of the Independence Party , but became a member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq in 1956. ^[2] He was an associate of Saddam Hussein since the 1950s. ^[3]

al-Samarra'i was one of the leading members of the Ba'ath Party following its November 1963 ousting from power , ^[4] and became a member of the Iraqi Regional Command in 1964. ^[2] At the 1969 Regional Congress of the Ba'ath Party in Iraq al-Samarra'i was re-elected as a member of the Iraqi Regional Command, ^[5] and appointed to a seat in the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC). ^[6] However, shortly after he was demoted from his post as Minister of Culture and Information to become Minister of State . The following year, in March 1970, al-Samara'i was removed from his seat in the RCC ^[7] and the Iraqi Regional Command and became the Iraqi Ambassador to India. ^[8] Al-Samarra'i was the first victim in a purge against the civilian wing of the party by Hussein. ^[9]

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• Ghareeb, Edmund; Dougherty, Beth (2004). Historical dictionary of Iraq . Scarecrow Press . ISBN   978-0-8108-4330-1 .
• Hashim, Ahmed (2005). Insurgency and Counter-insurgency in Iraq . Cornell University Press . ISBN   978-0-8014-4452-4 .
• Karsh, Efraim; Rautsi, Inari (1991). Saddam Hussein: a Political Biography . Grove Press . ISBN   978-0-8021-3978-8 .