Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat

Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat
Ribat in the late 1980s, as Commander of the Iraqi Army's 6th Corps.
Native name	عبد الواحد شنان آل رباط
Born	12 April 1944 Samawah, Iraq
Allegiance	Ba'athist Iraq
Service / branch	Iraqi Army
Years of service	1964–2003
Rank	Colonel general
Commands	12th Armored division 39th mountaineers division 29th infantry division 11th infantry division Baghdad division from the Republican Guards 6th Corps 4th Corps The Chief of staff of the Iraqi army (1995-1999)
Battles / wars	Second Iraqi–Kurdish War Iran–Iraq War Operation Dawn 5 Operation Dawn 6 Second Battle of al-Faw Operation Karbala-4 Operation Karbala-8 Battle of the Marshes Tawakalna ala Allah Operations Siege of Basra Gulf War Iraqi invasion of Kuwait Battle of Khafji 2003 invasion of Iraq

Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat (Arabic: عبد الواحد شنان آل رباط) is a former Iraqi Army general.

Ribat, a Shiite, is from the city of Samawah in Muthanna province. He served as Governor of Nineveh from 17 September 1993 to 13 December 1995, during the reign of Saddam Hussein.^[1] He then served as Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army (from 1995 to 1999).^{[2][circular reference][3]}

He later went on to become the Governor of Nineveh for the 2nd term (on 8 May 2001), in which capacity he served until the appointment of the new governor by U. S. military administration on 5 May 2003 (after U. S. military occupation of the territory of Iraq, as a result of 2003 invasion of Iraq).^[4][5]