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Taha Yassin Ramadan
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Iraq's vice president since March 1991, Ramadan was considered as ruthless as Saddam. In 1970, he headed a revolutionary court that executed 44 officers for plotting to overthrow the regime. During a visit to Jordan in the 1980s, he was quoted as telling fundamentalists that Muslims were free to follow their faith, "but if they try to harm the Baathist regime or ridicule its slogans, the regime will break their necks!"
Born in 1938 in Mosul, in northeastern Iraq, Ramadan worked as a bank clerk and later became a junior army officer. He joined the underground Baath Party in 1956 and became close to Saddam. Although considered less influential in recent years, Ramadan remains high on the list of regime figures that Iraqi opposition groups say should be tried.
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