[1] He joined the Ba'ath Party in 1952 and become one of the first military Ba'athists in the Iraqi Regional Branch.
[1] Ammash was a member of the Free Officers Movement which toppled the Iraqi monarchy.
In January 1985, while still in Helsinki, he suddenly became ill and died of natural causes, there was a conspiracy that he was poisoned on the orders of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
[3] But this accusation is poorly backed-up, and there is no proof Saddam Hussein had ever ordered it, and the average life expectancy in Iraq in 1985 was 60 years old, which was the age Ammash passed at, so it is most likely he died of natural causes.
[4] His daughter Huda became the first and only female member of the Regional Command on 18 May 2001.