Khalil Dabbagh

He was well known for his role in the 1948 Arab–Israeli war, for his letters and negotiations with the Israeli army officers,[1] defending 'Ara, Ar'ara and other territories,[2] and also setting up the Palestinian regiments.

He rescued his unit from dying from thirst after they lost their directions in the Iraqi desert near Fallujah after the heavy air raids.

He participated in WWII with the Iraqi army when Iraq declared war on the Axis powers in 1943 after cutting diplomatic ties.

The Iraqi army played a role in protecting the logistic routes of the Allies, especially the military aid to the Soviet Union which used to arrive from Basra, Baghdad and Kirkuk.

He led many successful negotiations with the Israeli officers in the presence of Palestinian leaders in that region and helped the refugees to resettle.

He was appointed as an intelligence officer for the Queen Alia brigade in Baghdad and helped to establish the first royal special forces.

The Qasim government and later Abdul Salam Arif once again had to send the experienced Iraqi officers in the north to face the Kurdish movement, but this time the war was more bloody and brutal, and the Kurds received arms and logistic support from both Iran and Israel which made the operations for the Iraqi army harder specially when they were also communist elements that supported the Kurdish movement represented by Toma Tommas and others.

Later, there was a major purge against many Iraqi officers by the Baathist regime, and there was a last attempt to restore president Arif to power that was made by some of the army officers that saw danger from the Bath party coming to power and leading Iraq into dictatorship but this attempt failed to exist due to Khalil Jassim early death in 1969.

He took control of Mosul military base and airport with assistant from Shindana and arrested all the pilots after dragging some of them from the planes while they attempt to flee.

Including colonel pilot Fahad Abdul khaliq and Mumtaz Al-Sadoon who were grandson of former prime minister Abdul-Muhsin Al-Saadoun and Arif Abd ar-Razzaq loyalist from the Egyptian Nasiri Arabian political movement who adopt the Arabian nationalist ideology of the Egyptian former president Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Again Khalil Jassim grandson Ghaith Khalil with help of his grandfather comrade in arms [4] was able to foil all their assassination attempts despite his young age and arrest one of the pilot officer Colonel Ahmed Fahad Al-Sadoon Son of colonel pilot Fahad Al-Sadoon who were also arrested in 1966 coupe as well as their cousins such Colonel Mumtaz Al-Sadoon and their sons, also some relatives to the former Iraqi prime minister Pilot Major-General Arif Abd ar-Razzaq.