Ali Ghaidan Majid

Ali Ghaidan Majid
Ghaidan in 2009.
Born	c. 1950 Balad Ruz, Diyala Governorate, Iraq
Allegiance	Iraq
Service/branch	Iraqi Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	Commander of all Iraqi Army Ground Forces under Iraqi control
Battles/wars	Gulf War Iraq War Iraqi Civil War

Lt. General Ali Ghaidan Majid (born 1950/1951) is the commander of all Iraqi Army ground forces under Iraqi control. (Two of the Iraqi Army's 10 divisions, the 5th and 7th, are under American command.) He is from the Balad Ruz area of Diyala province, Iraq. He served in the Iraqi Army during the regime of Saddam Hussein, but like a number of other generals, was imprisoned by Saddam following the Gulf War.

Sources/external links

• http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/world/middleeast/15embed.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/14/world/middleeast/14iraq.html

See also

• Iraqi Security Forces
• Iraq War
• War on Terrorism