Fasal al Gaood

Sheikh Faisal Raikan al-Gut al-Nimrawi (Arabic: فصال القعود; died 25 June 2007), also known as Fasal al Gaood (Arabic: فصال القعود), was a Governor of Anbar, Iraq and an important Iraqi Sunni Muslim ally of the United States.

Fasal al Gaood helped to form an umbrella group of tribal Sunni leaders called the Anbar Salvation Council.

Al Gaood was killed on June 25, 2007, in a suicide bombing blast at the Mansour Hotel in Baghdad along with 11 others.

Six of those killed, including al Gaood, were members of the Anbar Salvation Council, who were meeting at the hotel at the time.

The blast also killed Rahim al-Maliki, a prominent Iraqi poet and television producer for Al-Iraqiya TV.