Hossam Mohammed Amin

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A UN weapons inspector in Iraq.

Hossam Mohammed Amin (Template:Langx; 12 March 1950 – 8 July 2021)<ref>List established pursuant to security council resolution 1483 (2003)</ref> was an Iraqi general under Saddam Hussein's government. He is stated to have said in 2002 that Iraq would submit a list of chemical, biological and nuclear programs to UNMOVIC, but that the report would not disclose any banned weapons, "because, really, we have no weapons of mass destruction."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Biography

Originally from Saddam's home town of Tikrit, Amin studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Mosul, then Master's degree at the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia.<ref name="azzaman"/>

He participated as an Iraqi member delegation in the discussions conducted between Iraq and the United Nations and the IAEA for the period 1991–2003. He was number 49 on the US list of 55 most wanted Iraqis during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was the 13th on the list taken into custody on or around 26 April 2003. Before his capture, American intelligence agents had previously urged Amin to defect and provide the United States with key information on the Iraqi weapons program, as well as Saddam Hussein's inner circle.<ref name="BBC News | Middle East | US forces 'hold Iraqi arms chief'">Template:Cite news</ref> He was released from U.S. custody on 23 December 2005.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Amin worked as officer engineer in the army and military industrialization corporation in Iraq and was considered to be one of the scientists who developed missile systems.<ref name="AP | U.S. Said to Find Iraq Nerve Gas Evidence">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="AP | Locked Iraqi Room Delays U.N. Inspectors">Template:Cite news</ref>

He died from COVID-19 complications in the United Arab Emirates on 8 July 2021.<ref name="azzaman">Template:Cite web</ref>

References

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