Colonel General Ali Hassan al-Majid al-Tikriti, was an Iraqi military officer and politician under Saddam Hussein who served as defense minister, interior minister, and chief of the General Security.

Tikrit is a city in Iraq, located 140 kilometers northwest of Baghdad and 220 kilometers southeast of Mosul on the Tigris River. It is the administrative center of the Saladin Governorate. In 2012, it