穆罕默德·加班

Mohammed al-Ghabban occupied one of Iraq’s most exposed security posts as interior minister at a time when the state was fighting the Islamic State while still struggling to define the boundaries between cabinet authority, military command, and militia influence. His tenure exposed the structural weakness of Iraq’s security architecture, showing how wartime office can become a test of whether formal authority has real control over a fragmented coercive system. He held the interior portfolio during a critical phase of Iraq’s anti-ISIS war, tried to frame internal security as an institutional rather than purely partisan project, and resigned in the wake of catastrophic violence that highlighted limits to the ministry’s power. His case illustrates how security ministers can become symbols of both state effort and state inadequacy in wartime.