title: Thamer Nayef al-Hathal
text: # Thamer Nayef al-Hathal
  
  Thamer Nayef al-Hathal (born 1973) is, as of 2004, the mayor of the town of Nukhayb, Al Anbar Province, Iraq. Thamer is a business graduate of Baghdad University, and nephew of tribal chief Sheik Meta'ab al-Hathal (born 1937), who was picked up and released in a mass arrest by US forces in late 2003. Thamer was away at the time and was not arrested.
  
  