Honorific-Prefix: | Colonel General |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Office: | Minister of Defense |
Term Start: | May 1989 |
Term End: | December 1990 |
Predecessor: | Adnan Khairallah |
Successor: | Saadi Toma Abbas |
Office2: | Chief of the General Staff of the Army and the Armed Forces |
Term Start2: | 1970 |
Term End2: | 1984 |
Office3: | Member of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch |
Birth Date: | 1920 |
Birth Place: | Mosul, Mandatory Iraq |
Death Place: | Amman, Jordan |
Restingplace: | Iraqi Army Martyrs Cemetery |
Birthname: | Arabic: عبد الجبار خليل شنشل البكري Abdul Jabbar Khalil Shanshal al-Bakri |
Nationality: | Iraqi |
Party: | Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Nickname: | "Abu Muthanna" |
Allegiance: | Iraq |
Branch: | Iraqi Army |
Serviceyears: | 1940–2003 |
Rank: | General officer |
Battles: | |
Parents: | Hassan Abd al-Majid |
General Abdul Jabbar Khalil Shanshal al-Bakri (ar| عبد الجبار خليل شنشل البكري) (1920 – 20 September 2014) was an Iraqi senior officer and war minister for a very long period of time, also he held the position of minister of military affairs and chief of staff.
[1] He graduated from the Iraqi military college in Baghdad in 1940 (cycle 18)