Rassim al-Jumaili [SEP] cause of death
dictator in the play, believed to be a parody of Iraqi's post-Saddam Hussein administration. It was widely seen during the month of Ramadan in 2007.
Rassim al-Jumaili died from a blood infection caused by kidney failure at Younes Hospital in the Al-Hajar Al-Asswad quarter, 10 km south of Damascus, on 1 December 2007, at the age of 69. His death was announced on Sharqiyah, Iraq's satellite television station. The President of Iraq at the time of al-Jumaili
's death, Jalal Talabani, was quoted to have said that he would pay out of his own pocket to have al-Jumaili's body taken from Syria for burial in Baghdad. Talabani called al-Jumaili "one of Iraq's art icons for nearly a half-century [who] had a deep influence through his works in television, theater and film."
Yahya al-Jaberi, the head of Damascus-based Iraqi Artists Syndicate, said of al-Jumaili, "His death is a big loss