Falah Hassan al-Naqib () is an Iraqi politician and was the Minister of Interior under the Iraqi Interim Government. Biography Born in 1956 in Samarra, he is a Sunni Arab. He trained in the United States as a civil engineer. His father, General Hassan al-Naqib, defected in the 1970s and became an active opposition member in exile. An ally of Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, he was named the governor of Salah ad Din Governorate after the fall of Saddam Hussein, then he became the Minister of Interior, from 2004 to 2005. References 1956 births Living people People from Samarra Members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq Interior ministers of Iraq