09-02-2021, 04:36 AM
Latif Nassif Jassim (Arabic: لطيف نصيف جاسم; 1941 – 30 August 2021) was an Iraqi politician and leader of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
Latif Nassif Jassim was born in 1941. He joined the Ba'ath party in 1957 and was arrested after the 18 November 1963 movement.[1][2]
He held ministerial positions from 1977 until 1996. He was appointed minister of agriculture and agrarian reform on 5 April 1977, minister of culture and media until 1991 and minister of labor and social affairs until 1996.[1]
His name was included in the list of Iraqis wanted by the United States at number 18, and he was 10 of Clubs on the most wanted Iraqis playing cards.[3][4][5]
Latif was arrested on 9 June 2003 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 in the case of the murder of Mohammad al-Sadr.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latif_Nassif_Jassim
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