Fadhil Jalil al-Barwari
Fadhil Jamil al-Barwari | |
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Native name | فاضل جميل البرواري |
Born | 1966 Dohuk, Iraq |
Died | 20 September 2018 (aged 51–52) Iraq |
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Years of service | 1980s–2018 |
Rank | Major General |
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Battles/wars | Iraq War
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Fadhil Jamil al-Barwari (1966 – 20 September 2018)[1] was an Iraqi military commander who was the head of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Bureau.
History[]
Barwari was a Kurd[2] and was born in Duhok in 1966. In his late teens, he joined the Peshmerga, a Kurdish resistance movement that opposed the Ba'athist government, which eventually became the armed forces of Iraqi Kurdistan. Prior to joining the Iraqi Army in 2004, he was still in the Peshmerga.
Barwari joined the Iraqi Army in 2004 after the U.S. invasion. He quickly rose through the ranks of the military ladder, becoming the commanding officer of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF), an elite special forces detachment trained by the United States Army's Special Forces and equipped with American weaponry. In this capacity, he directed Iraqi special forces in the 2014 Anbar campaign.[3]
In November 2017, two former DynCorp workers testified in an Alexandria, Virginia federal court that Barwari paid them hundreds of thousands of dollars to arrange an overpriced lease of land the general owned near the Baghdad airport, starting in 2011.[4]
Barwari died on 20 September 2018 from a heart attack.[5]
See also[]
- Iraq War
- War on Terror
References[]
- ^ http://www.rudaw.net/mobile/arabic/middleeast/iraq/2009201812
- ^ Shanker, Thom (20 February 2006). "Elite Iraqi Unit Seeks Footing as It Fills U.S. Boots". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
- ^ Berwani, Hawar (5 January 2014). "Al-Qaeda leader killed with 31 other al-Qaeda elements in Anbar – MG Fadhil Barwari". Iraqi News. Baghdad. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ Weiner, Rachel (28 November 2017). "Iraqi general helped cheat US government, contractors involved in scheme say". Stripes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ "الموت يغيب قائد الفرقة الذهبية فاضل برواري". Rudaw.net (in Arabic). 20 September 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
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