Fadhil Jalil al-Barwari

Fadhil Jalil al-Barwari
Barwari in 2009
Native name	فاضل جليل البرواري
Born	1966 (1966) Dohuk, Iraq
Died	20 September 2018 (aged 51–52) Iraq
Allegiance	Peshmerga (1980s–2003)  Iraq (2003–2018)
Service/branch	ISOF
Years of service	1980s–2018
Rank	Major General
Commands held	Counter Terrorism Bureau
Battles/wars	Iraq War First Battle of Fallujah 2004 Battle of Najaf 2004 Battle of Samarra Operation Sayeed Second Battle of Fallujah Diyala campaign Ninawa campaign Battle of Basra 2010 Baghdad church attack 2014 Anbar Campaign Battle of Mosul (2016–17) Battle of Kirkuk (2017)

Fadhil Jamil al-Barwari (1966 – 20 September 2018)^[1] was an Iraqi military commander who was the head of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Bureau.

History

Barwari was a Kurd^[2] and was born in Duhok in 1966. In his late teens, he joined the Peshmerga, a Kurdish resistance movement that opposed the Ba'athist government, which eventually became the armed forces of Iraqi Kurdistan. . Prior to joining the Iraqi Army in 2004, he was still in the Peshmerga.

Barwari joined the Iraqi Army in 2004 after the invasion. He quickly rose through the ranks of the military ladder, becoming the commanding officer of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF), an elite special forces detachment trained by the United States Army's Special Forces and equipped with American weaponry. In this capacity, he directed Iraqi special forces in the 2014 Anbar campaign.^[3]

In November 2017, two former DynCorp workers testified in an Alexandria, Virginia federal court that Barwari paid them hundreds of thousands of dollars to arrange an overpriced lease of land the general owned near the Baghdad airport, starting in 2011.^[4]

Barwari died on 20 September 2018 from a heart attack.^[5]

See also

• Iraq War
• War on Terror

References