Mahmud Salman

Colonel Mahmud Salman (Arabic: محمود سلمان) was the Commanding Officer in the Royal Iraqi Air Force in the late 1930s and as a member of the Golden Square was one of the four principal instigators of the 1941 Iraqi coup d'état.

Salman was born in Baghdad in 1889 and as a young man served as an officer in the Ottoman, Syrian and Iraqi armies, the latter which he joined in 1925.^[1]

In 1937, following the 1936 Iraqi coup d'état when Bakr Sidqi became the de facto rule of Iraq and Commander of the Armed Forces, Salman was one a the small group of officers who planned the execution of Sidqi.^[2]

References

1. Hamdi, Walid (1987). Rashid Ali Al-Gailani and the Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939-1941. p. 220.
2. Simon, Reeva Spector (2012). Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny. Columbia University Press. p. 119. ISBN 9780231507004.