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Mohammed Amza al-Zubeidi was the Prime Minister of Iraq from 1991 to 1993. He is on the "Saddam's Dirty Dozen" list of people responsible for torture and murder in Iraq, playing a key role in Iraq's brutal suppression of the Shiite Muslim uprising of 1991. He was featured in Iraqi news film kicking and beating captured Shiite rebels.
Although a Shiite himself, al-Zubeidi played a key part in the suppression of the Shiite uprising in March 1991. After that, he was the country's prime minister until the post went to Saddam Hussein in 1992.
He was a member of the Revolutionary Command Council and the commander of the Central Euphrates military district, but had not been in power for two years.
After the fall of Saddam Hussein, being assumed to be one of the most hated men in the former regime, he was captured on April 20 2003 near the small city of Mahaweel.
He is the Queen of Spades in the deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards issued by the US government during the war in Iraq.
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