Kadhim Finjan al Hammami

Kadhim Finjan al Hammami
Minister of Transport (Iraq)
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 August 2016
Personal details
Born (1958-05-01) 1 May 1958 (age 66)
Basra
OccupationPolitician, iraqi minister of transport

Kadhim Finjan al Hammami (Arabic: كاظم فنجان الحمامي; born 1 May 1958) is an Iraqi politician who was the Iraqi Minister of Transport.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Controversies

In 2016, al Hammami caused controversy during an inauguration of an airport in Dhi Qar Governorate, when he said that Sumerians had a port where spaceships could fly to other planets in 5000 BC,[7] based on writings of Zecharia Sitchin, Samuel Noah Kramer and H. G. Wells.[8] Later on, he claimed that Noah's Ark embarked from Nasiriyah.[9]

In 2023 he was sentenced for two years of hard labor for corruption.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "وزير النقل الجديد كاظم فنجان يباشر مهام عمله رسمياً". www.alrasheedmedia.com.
  2. ^ "وزير عراقي كاد أن يتسبب في كارثة جوية: وزير النقل العراقي كاظم فنجان الحمامي". arabyexpressnews.com (in Arabic). [permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ Al-awsat, Asharq (25 July 2017). "Saudi Arabia Starts Repairing Crossing with Iraq – ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive".
  4. ^ "بالفيديو: كاظم فنجان يستلم مهام وزارة النقل رسميًا". alsumaria.tv (in Arabic). 17 August 2016.
  5. ^ "وزير النقل الجديد كاظم فنجان :سنجعل البصرة تتفوق على كل مدن الخليج – شبكة عراق الخير". www.iraqkhair.com.
  6. ^ "وزير النقل يكشف عن خطة تطوير الخطوط الجوية العراقية | وكالة الناظر الاخبارية - Nna". Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  7. ^ "Iraqi transport minister claims first airport was built 7,000 years ago in Iraq by ancient Sumerians". Independent. 1 October 2016.
  8. ^ "Iraqi transport minister's 7,000 year airport claim mocked". Middle East Monitor. 1 October 2016.
  9. ^ "فيديو.. سفينة نوح انطلقت من مطار الناصرية". pukmedia.com (in Arabic). 12 March 2017.
  10. ^ الشرق الأوسط العراق…الحكم على وزير النقل الأسبق كاظم فنجان الحمامي بالسجن المشدد, March 10, 2023


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