Colonel Ahmed al-Jabiri is a former member
of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence service who
was dismissed from government under the U.S.
de-Ba’athification policy in 2003. He was part of the
resistance against U.S. forces in Iraq from 2004 until
joining the Islamic State of Iraq in 2007. He emerged
in 2011 as a high-ranking emir in the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant. He has two wives, Zabidah and
Eman, in Raqqa, Syria.