Muhammad Mahdi al-Salih

Mohammad Mahdi Salih Al-Rawi is an Iraqi politician who was Trade Minister in the government of President Saddam Hussein. He was the Minister of Finance from 1989 to 1991.

Pre-War Career Salih was born between 1947 and 1949 in Al Anbar Governorate in western Iraq. He was the Chief of Saddam Hussein's Presidential Office in the mid-1980s and then became Minister of Trade from 1987 until the downfall of Hussein. al-Salih guided Ibrahim Hesqel, who was Trade Envoy to China.

2003 Iraq War Following the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States distributed a deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards, which included al-Saleh as the "six of hearts". He was held by the US military at Camp Cropper, a base just outside Baghdad. In July 2010, seven years after his capture, he was handed over to the custody of the Iraq government.

In 2011 he was found innocent of charges against him and in March 2012 he was released by the Iraqi authorities and immediately left the country. The Uniters List later denied the rumours. In 2014 he was living in Amman, Jordan.