Fasal al Gaood

Fasal al Gaood فصال القعود
Governor of Anbar (Acting)
In office July 2004 – January 2005
Preceded by	Abd al-Karim Barjas
Succeeded by	Raja Nawaf Farhan al-Mahalawi
Personal details
Died	25 June 2007 Mansour Hotel, Baghdad, Iraq
Nationality	Iraqi

Sheikh Faisal Raikan al-Gut al-Nimrawi (Template:Lang-ar; died 25 June 2007), also known as Fasal al Gaood (Template:Lang-ar), was a Governor of Anbar, Iraq and an important Iraqi Sunni Muslim ally of the United States. He served as interim governor of the province from July 2004 to January 2005.

Fasal al Gaood helped to form an umbrella group of tribal Sunni leaders called the Anbar Salvation Council. The goal of the organization was to ally themselves with U.S. forces against Al Qaeda insurgents in Sunni regions of Iraq, such as Al Anbar. The council had been unfortunately torn by infighting.

Al Gaood was killed on June 25, 2007, in a suicide bombing blast at the Mansour Hotel in Baghdad along with 11 others. Six of those killed, including al Gaood, were members of the Anbar Salvation Council, who were meeting at the hotel at the time. Investigators believe that the Sunni tribal leaders were the targets. The blast also killed Rahim al-Maliki, a prominent Iraqi poet and television producer for Al-Iraqiya TV.

External links

• McClatchy Newspaper Service: A U.S. ally in Iraq is murdered
• Washington Post:Baghdad Blast Targets Sunni Tribal Leaders (Accessed September 14, 2007)