Nadhim Kzar

Nadhim Kzar (1940 - July 8, 1973) was an Iraqi engineer and intelligence official. He was the first head of the Iraqi Directorate of General Security.

Biography Kzar was born in 1940 in Amarah, Iraq. He studied engineering at the Technical Institute in Baghdad, and joined the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region in 1959 as a student. According to author Con Coughlin, "Hundreds if not thousands of people perished at the hands of Kazzar's security forces, many of them tortured to death at the Palace of the End."

On July 7 Kzar was tried over the coup by the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council under Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri. He was executed the following day, on July 8, 1973.