This HTML5 document contains 45 embedded RDF statements represented using HTML+Microdata notation.

The embedded RDF content will be recognized by any processor of HTML5 Microdata.

Subject Item

n2:

rdf:type

n19:

rdfs:label

Taha Yassin Ramadan

rdfs:comment

Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi (22 February 1938 – 20 March 2007) () was a prominent Iraqi Kurd, serving as Vice President of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003. In October 2002, four months before the United States invaded Iraq, Ramadan suggested U.S. President George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein settle their difference in a duel. He reasoned this would not only serve as an alternative to a war that was certain to damage Iraq's infrastructure, but that it would also reduce the suffering of the Iraqi and American peoples. Ramadan's offer included the possibility that a group of US officials would face off with a group of Iraqi officials of same or similar rank (President v. President, Vice President v. Vice President, etc.). Ramadan proposed that the duel be held

owl:sameAs

dbr:Taha_Yassin_Ramadan

n16:

Member of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch Deputy Secretary of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch

dcterms:subject

n6: n10: n15: n20: n24: n25: n26: n29: n30: n34: n37: n38: n39: n43:

n11:wikiPageUsesTemplate

n12: n14: n23: n40:

n4:

1979-07-16 1974 October 1966 March 1991

n27:

1938-02-22

n28:

Baghdad, Iraq

n3:

Taha Yassin Ramadan

n41:

150

n31:

Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party

n33:

Mosul, Iraq

n9:

September 1991 2003-04-09 1991

n44:

2007-03-20

n17:

n18: Ibrahim Jaafari and Rowsch Shaways

n21:

n22: Head of the Popular Army

n35:

n36: n42:

n32:abstract

Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi (22 February 1938 – 20 March 2007) () was a prominent Iraqi Kurd, serving as Vice President of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003. In October 2002, four months before the United States invaded Iraq, Ramadan suggested U.S. President George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein settle their difference in a duel. He reasoned this would not only serve as an alternative to a war that was certain to damage Iraq's infrastructure, but that it would also reduce the suffering of the Iraqi and American peoples. Ramadan's offer included the possibility that a group of US officials would face off with a group of Iraqi officials of same or similar rank (President v. President, Vice President v. Vice President, etc.). Ramadan proposed that the duel be held in a neutral land, with each party using the same weapons, and with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan presiding as the supervisor. On behalf of President Bush, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer declined the offer. Following the fall of Saddam's government, Taha Yasin Ramadan was placed on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis and depicted as the Ten of Diamonds in the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards. He was captured on August 19, 2003 in Mosul, by fighters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and handed over to US forces. He was one of the defendants in the Iraq Special Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial. On November 5, 2006 he was sentenced to life imprisonment. On December 26, 2006 the appeals court sent the case file back to the Tribunal, saying the sentence was too lenient and demanding a death sentence. On February 12, 2007 he was sentenced to death by hanging. His sentence was carried out on the fourth anniversary of Iraq's US invasion, before dawn on March 20, 2007.