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He was born in 1937/8 in Baghdad from a Sunni Arab background. al-Najim was the regional command chairman for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party for East Baghdad. He was accused by US Army officers of helping Saddam Hussein plot assassination attempts He was convicted in 1959 of the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim and sentenced to death, although Qassim pardoned Najim.