Falah Hassan al-Naqib

Falah Hassan al-Naqib (Arabic: فلاح حسن النقيب) is an Iraqi politician and was the Minister of Interior under the Iraqi Interim Government.

Naqib in 2004.

Biography

Born in 1956 in Samarra, he is a Sunni Arab. He trained in the United States as a civil engineer. His father, General Hassan al-Naqib, defected in the 1970s and became an active opposition member in exile.^[1]

An ally of Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, he was named the governor of Salah ad Din Governorate after the fall of Saddam Hussein, then he became the Minister of Interior,^[2] from 2004 to 2005.