[1] al-Zamili was deputy minister during the height of the sectarian conflict in Iraq.
[2] Whilst he was at the ministry, he was accused of running death squads that used ambulances and hospitals to kidnap and murder Sunni Arabs.
[3] U.S. troops arrested al-Zamili in February 2007, accusing him of funneling money to private militias.
[4] He was also accused of kidnapping in November 2006 another Deputy Health Minister, Ammar al-Saffar, from the Shiite Dawa Party, who had allegedly compiled a dossier of his crimes that he was going to hand over to the Prime Minister.
[5][6] He was cleared of all charges when key witnesses failed to show up after facing alleged intimidation.