Hatem Kamil

{{Infobox person | name = Hatem Kamil | birth_name = Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah | death_date = {{death date|2004|11|1}} | death_place = Dura district, Baghdad, Iraq | death_cause = Drive-by shooting | occupation = Deputy governor of Iraq's Baghdad Governorate<br>Iraqi government's negotiator in Fallujah | children = 2 }}

'''Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah''' (died November 1, 2004) was the deputy governor of Iraq's Baghdad Governorate.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cordon|first=Gavin|last2=Gammell|first2=Caroline|last3=Pilling|first3=Kim|date=2004-11-01|title=Baghdad deputy governor shot dead|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/baghdad-deputy-governor-shot-dead-18189.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220509/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/baghdad-deputy-governor-shot-dead-18189.html |archive-date=2022-05-09 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=2020-07-15|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref>

Hatem Kamil was assassinated by gunmen at 7.47am in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, in the southern district of Dura, while on his way to work. Two of his bodyguards were wounded in the attack.<ref>{{cite news |title=Top Baghdad official shot dead |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3970619.stm |newspaper=BBC News |date=1 November 2004 |access-date=26 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Baghdad deputy governor killed|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/baghdad-deputy-governor-killed|access-date=2020-07-15|website=SBS News|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2004-11-01|title=Deputy governor of Baghdad shot dead|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/01/iraq|access-date=2020-07-15|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> At the time of his death he had two children, a two-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

Hatem Kamil served as the Iraqi government's negotiator in Fallujah and had challenged claims that the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was actually in the region. "We want to know what evidence there is of Zarqawi's presence in Fallujah," he said in an interview with Al Jazeera television, prior to his assassination. "Zarqawi has become like Iraqi WMD ... We hear this name, but it doesn't exist. More than 15 to 20 houses were destroyed in Fallujah because they were accused of harboring Zarqawi or Zarqawi's followers."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Agencies|date=2004-10-14|title=Five dead in Baghdad green zone blasts|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/14/iraq|access-date=2020-07-15|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

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