Hammad Shehab (died 1973) was an Iraqi official. A general, he also served as the defense minister. He was assassinated in 1973.
Hammad Shehab (died 1973) was an Iraqi official. A general, he also served as the defense minister. He was assassinated in 1973.
Before surrendering, Kazzar ordered his soldiers to shoot Shihab and Ghaydan: Shihab was killed, but Ghaydan, although severely wounded, survived because Shihab's body fell in front of him and took the brunt of the machine-gun fire.
Following an abortive coup in July 1973, led by the security chief Nazim Kazzar, in which the minister of Defence, Gen. Hammad Shehab was killed, consequences of the attempted coup included an amendment to the Constitution giving more power to the President and the formation of a National Front between the Baath party and the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP).
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