Baghdad University

Baghdad University   (University)
Motto	وقل رب زدني علما
Formation	1957
Type	Public university
An assassination campaign tried to eliminate its top academics

The University of Baghdad (UOB) (Jāmi'at Baghdād) is the largest university in Iraq and the second largest in the Arab world, behind the University of Cairo. Being a intellectually lively place in the 1970s, it experienced a distinct chill during the Saddam Hussein years, before suffering a large brain drain during the 1990s sanctions and covert warfare, the 2003 Iraq War and the following occupation.

Targeted Killings

In the decade following the 2003 US occupation, several dozens of the university's people were assassinated or forced to flee the country, as part of an attempt to eradicate the intellectual and scientific base in the Arab country. Likely suspects include Mossad and the CIA.

The more than 300 killings nationwide led to an exodus of engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians. "There is a kind of campaign to make physicians leave the country," an official at the Iraqi Ministry of Education stated.

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
İhsan Doğramacı	3 April 1915	25 February 2010	Turkey	Academic Doctor Polyglot Businessperson	Turkish doctor and university administrator
Issam Sartawi	1935	10 April 1983		Diplomat Doctor
Abdurrahman Wahid	7 September 1940	30 December 2009		Politician
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi	1968		Iraq German	Defector	Iraqi defector purported to be the source of the lies about Saddam Hussein's WMDs.

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