article_snippet.sent: One of the most prominent former Hussein's Iraqi Army generals within ISIS was Abu Muslim al-Turkmani (left) who led the terrorists' operations in Iraq until Hussein was killed in an American airstrike last November. 
article_snippet.sent: (right), a former colonel in Iraqi Air Force intelligence now plays a leading role in ISIS military council .
article_snippet.sent: Former Iraqi Army colonel Haji Bakr (left) was al-Baghdadi's closest advisor and the overall head of Former Iraqi Army colonel Haji Bakr military council until Former Iraqi Army colonel Haji Bakr execution at the hands of Syrian rebels in January 2014.
article_snippet.sent: Pictured right is Abu Ahmad al-Alwani - a former Baathist soldier and now an ISIS military council member .
article_snippet.sent: Paul Bremer - the American who served as temporary head of the Iraqi state following the ousting of Hussein.
article_snippet.sent: One of the most prominent former Iraqi Army generals within ISIS was Fadel Ahmad Abdullah al-Hiyali, who used the code name Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, and was in charge of all the terrorists' operations in Iraq until Saddam Hussein's was killed in an American airstrike last November.
article_snippet.sent: Other senior figures include Abu Ali al-Anbari, who currently acts as al-Baghdadi's deputy leader in Syria and is a former military general in Saddam Hussein's's Iraqi Army, and Abu Ayman al-Iraqi, a former colonel in Iraqi Air Force intelligence and now plays a leading role in ISIS military council.
article_snippet.sent: Less prominent militants with an Iraqi Army backgrounds include Abu Ahmad al-Alwani - a former Baathist soldier and now an ISIS military council member, Abu Kassem - a former Iraqi officer and now in charge of ISIS suicide bombers and foreign fighters.
article_snippet.sent: Another former Iraqi Army colonel was Haji Bakr, who is widely considered to have been al-Baghdadi's closest advisor and the overall head of Another former Iraqi Army colonel military council until Another former Iraqi Army colonel execution at the hands of a rebel group known as the Syrian Martyr's Brigade in January 2014.