Saleh Mahdi Al Samarrai - https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/23/archives/iraq-executes-11-more-accused-as-plotters-and-7-termed-us-spies.html

"The radio indicated that still more executions could be ex pected. The purge is one of the bloodiest in the history of coups détat and revolutions in the Middle East since World War II.

Among the first officers exe cuted was Col. Saleh Mahdi al Samarrai, the Iraqi military at taché in Lebanon under the monarchy of King Faisal, and retired Brig. Gen. Mohammed Rashid al‐Janabi."