[1] Osama Tawfiq al-Tikriti was born in Tikrit, Iraq, where Saddam Hussein is also from.
He joined the Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq in 1952, and was an active member of the short-lived Iraqi Islamic Party when it was founded in 1960.
In 1972, he moved to London to study radiology and remained three decades abroad to avoid an incarceration by the Hussein's regime in his country.
[2] Osama Tawfiq al-Tikriti finally returned to Irak in 2003 after the US invasion, and became an active political figure.
[6] Tikriti's son, Anas, is the former head of the Muslim Association of Britain.