Sheik Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabban (Arabic: جمال عبدالكريم الدبان) (c. 1939 – 17 June 2007) was a moderate Sunni cleric in the city of Tikrit, Iraq.
al-Dabban was the senior Sunni religious leader between July 2004 and his death. He was a moderate Sunni leader with no links to insurgent groups.
On June 24, 2006 he was arrested along with his two sons by the United States Army in Iraq on suspicion of being a terrorist. After mass protest by Iraqi people in Tikrit the American authorities apologized and released him.
al-Dabban died on 17 June 2007 from a heart attack.
References
- ^ NBC News "Iraq's top Sunni religious leader dies" June 17 2007
- "CNN " Iraqi cleric freed after U.S. raid" 24 June 2006". Archived from the original on 27 June 2006. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
External links
- U.S. Troops Briefly Detain Sunni Leader
- US detains top Iraqi Sunni cleric
- Iraqi Sunnis Condemn Mufti Detention
- Iraq's Sunni mufti dies of heart attack
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