Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti

Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti (February 17, 1951 - January 15, 2007) was one of Saddam Hussein's three half-brothers and the former director of the Iraqi secret service, Mukhabarat.

Until 1995, he managed Saddam's personal fortune. This task was carried out by a network of foreign brokers, since Saddam decided that no one from Iraq could be trusted with this task.

US officials have described him as a member of 'Saddam's Dirty Dozen,' responsible for torture and murder in Iraq. He was captured by American forces on April 17, 2003. He was the 5 of clubs in the Iraqi most-wanted deck, for which on November 5, 2006 he was sentenced to hang along with his brother Saddam Hussein and Awad Hamed al-Bandar. The execution took place at dawn on January 15, 2007 and during it, he was accidentally decapitated by the same rope that was going to hang him by separating his head from his body, leaving it a few meters from his torso.