Editing Hossam Mohammed Amin

{{Short description|Iraqi general (1950–2021)}}
{{Campaignbox Iraq War}}
[[Image:WeaponsInspector.JPG|thumb|right|300px|A UN weapons inspector in Iraq.]]
'''Hossam Mohammed Amin''' ({{langx|ar|حسام محمد أمين}}; 12 March 1950 – 8 July 2021)<ref>[https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/ii/2004/11/aviso06lista_en.asp  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>{{cite news |url=http://www.washtimes.com/national/20021205-94437619.htm |title=Unknown |newspaper=Washington Times |accessdate=2009-08-21 |quote=(inaccessible) |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20021205110038/http://www.washtimes.com/national/20021205-94437619.htm |archivedate=2002-12-05 }}</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 [[U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis|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'">{{cite news|last=BBC News|title=US forces 'hold Iraqi arms chief'|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2979905.stm|accessdate=2013-06-06|newspaper=BBC News|date=2003-04-27}}</ref>  He was released from U.S. custody on 23 December 2005.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/23/hussam-mohammed-amin-form_n_243818.html | work=Huffington Post | first=Nico | last=Pitney | authorlink=Nico Pitney| title=Hussam Mohammed Amin: Former Iraqi Weapons Monitor Describes U.S. Abuse For First Time | date=23 July 2009}}</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">{{cite news|last=Meixler|first=Louis|title=U.S. Said to Find Iraq Nerve Gas Evidence|url=http://business.highbeam.com/62734/article-1P1-73536394/us-said-find-iraq-nerve-gas-evidence|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308235048/https://business.highbeam.com/62734/article-1P1-73536394/us-said-find-iraq-nerve-gas-evidence|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 8, 2016|accessdate=2013-06-06|newspaper=Associated Press|date=April 27, 2003}}</ref><ref name="AP | Locked Iraqi Room Delays U.N. Inspectors">{{cite news|last=Abou El-Magd|first=Nadia|title=Locked Iraqi Room Delays U.N. Inspectors|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-70353501.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130708183336/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-70353501.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-07-08|accessdate=2013-06-06|newspaper=Associated Press|date=2002-12-13}}</ref>

He died from [[COVID-19]] complications in the [[United Arab Emirates]] on 8 July 2021.<ref name="azzaman">{{cite web |url=https://www.azzaman.com/حسام-محمد-أمين-أحد-المدرجين-على-قائمة-ا/ |title=حسام محمد أمين أحد المدرجين على قائمة الـ 55 الأمريكية يغادر الحياة في الإمارات |website=azzaman.com |language=ar |date=9 July 2021  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709204618/https://www.azzaman.com/حسام-محمد-أمين-أحد-المدرجين-على-قائمة-ا/ |archive-date=9 July 2021 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References==
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{{U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis}}

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[[Category:University of Belgrade Faculty of Mechanical Engineering alumni]]
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[[Category:Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region politicians]]
[[Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates]]
[[Category:Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards]]
[[Category:Iraq War prisoners of war]]
[[Category:Iraqi prisoners of war]]
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