Amer Mohammad Rashid al-Ubaidi (Arabic: عامر محمد رشيد العبيدي; born 1939 in Baghdad)[1] served as the Oil Minister under Saddam Hussein.
[3] Iraqi government news sources indicated that he retired from his positions in 2002, at the age of 65.
[2] Rashid was the six of spades in the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards issued by the United States during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
[4] After the invasion commenced, he issued a public statement calling for other Arab nations to decrease oil production, in order "to make the cost of war high for the Americans.
"[5] American troops raided his Baghdad home on April 14, 2003, in an effort to take him and his wife into custody, but both evaded capture.