Al-Bu Badri

Al-Bu Badri is an Arab tribe in Iraq, predominantly based in Samarra, Diyala and Baghdad. It is mostly a Sunni tribe of around 25,000 but has a small Shia minority of about 1,500.

History

The eponymous founder of the tribe, Badri bin Armoush, moved from Medina in modern-day Saudi Arabia to Samarra in Iraq in the 1700s. He married an Iraqi woman and had five sons.

Modern history

Some notable members of this tribe are as follows:

• Ibrahim bin Awad bin Ibrahim ibn Ali ibn Mohammad bin Badri bin Armoush, commonly known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the deceased former leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant movement.
• Abd al-Aziz al-Badri, founder of the Iraqi branch of the international Islamic movement Hizb ut-Tahrir. Also close to the Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq. Executed in 1969 by the Ba'ath regime.
• Subhi al-Badri al-Samerai, Sunni Islamic scholar. He taught at the Iraqi University (formerly Islamic University).
• Lieutenant General Nassif Jassem al-Samerai
• Haitham al-Badri, emir of Saladin Governorate for Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn. Ordered the 2006 al-Askari mosque bombing.