Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti (Arabic: طاهر جليل حبوش التكريتي; born 1950) is a former Iraqi intelligence official who served under the regime of Saddam Hussein.

[1] He was the "Jack of Diamonds" in the US deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards[2] and is still a fugitive with a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to his capture.

According to the London Sunday Telegraph, Mohamed Atta is mentioned in a letter allegedly discovered in Iraq handwritten by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Takriti, former chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

We arranged a work program for him for three days with a team dedicated to working with him...He displayed extraordinary effort and showed a firm commitment to lead the team which will be responsible for attacking the targets that we have agreed to destroy.

"[6] In The Way of the World, author Ron Suskind alleges that the Bush administration itself ordered the forgery.