[2][3] A Muslim Arab from Mosul, Hamdoon finished his high school studies in Baghdad College then graduated from Baghdad University with a degree in architecture.

[2][3] He gained attention in the West in 1998 during the Iraq disarmament crisis and the UNSCOM weapons inspections.

[4][5] In a memo he wrote a few months before retiring, he argued that Iraq should be a monarchy and have a constitution written by Iraqis.

[6] Hamdoon died on 4 July 2003 in New York City from pneumonia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

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