Zaid Ahmad Osman was born in 1924 in the city of Erbil in South Kurdistan. He died on September 17, 1978 and was buried in his family cemetery in Badawa, Erbil.
Zaid Ahmad Osman was elected as a representative of Erbil in 1958. After the 1968 coup, he joined the September Revolution. He was trusted by the revolutionary leadership and participated in delegations that held talks with the government on behalf of the revolutionary leadership.
Zaid Ahmad Osman was so intelligent and active that even the US Embassy praised his noble personality.
The US Embassy in Beirut said in a classified document in 1969 that Zaid Ahmad Osman, aged about 47, studied at Cairo University before the Kurdish revolution and then worked as a lawyer in Baghdad.
In 1966, he helped Prime Minister Bazaz draft an agreement between the Kurds and the Iraqi government. Zaid Osman says he has been imprisoned five times in Baghdad for political activities.
The fall of Bazaz's government and the subsequent rift between Barzani and the Iraqi government in 1968 forced Osmani to flee Baghdad at the cost of his life.
Since then, Osman has lived at Barzani's leadership headquarters and often travels abroad as a committee. Zaid Osman has not visited his family in Baghdad since the March 1970 agreement between Barzani and the Iraqi government because he does not trust the Ba'ath regime.
Although Zaid Osman is very fluent in English, he is a shy person who speaks completely convincingly. Zaid Osman advocates a democratic way of life like the one in the United States.[1]