Died 1979 Name Salih Ammash | Religion Sunni Islam | |
Alma mater Baghdad Military College and Baghdad Staff College | ||
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Salih Mahdi Ammash (1925–1979) was an Iraqi Regional Branch politician who sat on the Regional Command from 1963 to 1971.
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Aftermath of arrest of alleged weapons expert
Life
He was born into a peasant family in Baghdad, 1925. Ammash attended the Baghdad Military College and the Baghdad Staff College. He joined the Ba'ath Party in 1952 and become one of the first military Ba'athists in the Iraqi Regional Branch. Ammash was a member of the Free Officers and Civilians Movement which toppled the Iraqi monarchy.
Ammash was elected to the Regional Command for three separate terms. His daughter Huda became the first and only female member of the Regional Command on 18 May 2001.
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