Osama Tawfiq al-Tikriti

Osama Maukhlif Tawfiq al-Tikriti is a former leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni Arab religious party which was the largest Sunni Arab led party in the Iraqi legislative election of December 2005.

Biography Osama Tawfiq al-Tikriti was born in Tikrit, Iraq, where Saddam Hussein is also from. The two attended the same school. He studied at the University of Baghdad's Faculty of Medicine and graduated in 1963.

He started his career working in hospitals. 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. Ayad al-Samarrai was elected as his Deputy.

He was a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq from Baghdad Governorate. He is a member of the CoR's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Tikriti's son, Anas, is the former head of the Muslim Association of Britain.