Aziz Saleh al-Numan was born on 1 July 1941. He was a member of the "dirty dozen", allegedly responsible for
torture and murder in Iraq. Prior to the U.S. invasion in April 2003, Al-Numan was the
Baath Party's regional command chair, responsible for West Baghdad. He was previously the governor of
Karbala and
Najaf. He was taken into custody on 22 May 2003. At the time, he was the Number 8 on the Central Command's list of the 55 most wanted Iraqis, and was the highest-ranking person on the list of 55 to have been taken into custody to that time. He was one of nine Iraqi leaders that the
United States wished to see tried for either war crimes or
crimes against humanity. In 2011, he was transferred to Iraqi custody along with five others, tried and sentenced to death. Al-Numan was the" King of Diamonds" in the
US deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards. He died on 30 January 2024, at the age of 82. == References ==