page_title: Ali Ghaidan Majid
hierarchical_section_title: Ali Ghaidan Majid
caption_attribution_description: English: Gen. Ali Ghaidan, commander of the Iraqi army's ground forces during a ceremony at Forward Operating Base Diamondback in Mosul, Iraq, Aug. 4.
context_page_description: Lt. General Ali Ghaidan Majid was the commander of the Iraqi Army between 2006 and September 2014.He is from the Balad Ruz area of Diyala province, Iraq. He served in the Iraqi Army during the regime of Saddam Hussein, but like a number of other generals, was imprisoned by Saddam following the Gulf War.
context_section_description: Lt. General Ali Ghaidan Majid (born 1950/1951) was the commander of the Iraqi Army between 2006 and September 2014.He is from the Balad Ruz area of Diyala province, Iraq.  He served in the Iraqi Army during the regime of Saddam Hussein, but like a number of other generals, was imprisoned by Saddam following the Gulf War.
caption: Ghaidan in 2009.
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