[6] Over the course of his chieftaincy, Mudbir was employed by the Ottomans as an unofficial intelligence officer, and for a short time represented the Shàmìyah on the Wilayat council.
Why do you bow to foreign [non-Arab, Turkish] rule controlling you with you under its mercy like slaves?Subsequently, rebels led by Mudbir clashed with Ottoman forces throughout the mid-Euphrates region of Mesopotamia.
[1] A British report described Mudbir as follows:[4] Mubdir al-Faran - Shaikh of the Al-Fatlah tribe near Moroglah, 5 hours above Shinafiyah [ar].
[7] British records note that Mujbil was "very useful to us immediately after the occupation"[5] and "a fairly honest and not too intelligent man who is played upon by the astuter 'Abdul Wáhid, his nephew".
[8] According to Ahed Al Amiri in The Role of Karbala Scholars in Confronting the British Occupation (2017), Mujbil would be "one of the prominent personalities of Al- Fatlah tribe and took part in the leadership of the Iraqi revolution in 1920".