Dr. Isam Sharif al‑Tikriti

From the news reports:

Dr Isam Sharif al-Tikriti, former Iraqi ambassador to Tunisia until 2000. He later went into teaching at the Department of History in the Arts Faculty of Baghdad University ...

The victim was expelled from the Iraqi intelligence services, because he refused to carry out a death sentence against a Kurdish national, Hushtak Bawil, who was in charge of the Turkish section within the Iraqi intelligence.

UNHCR/Al-Zaman 01 Nov 2003