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Iraqi Governing Council
Without Comment, Here is the List of the 25 Men and Women Chosen by the US to Serve on the Iraqi Governing Council.
Source: The TIP, 2003-08-01
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Iraqi Governing Council members
The Iraqi Governing Council, chosen by the US administration in Iraq, is made up of 25 people representing the country's diverse religious and ethnic groupings in broadly proportionate terms.
The members are:
1. Samir Shakir Mahmoud (Sunni)
Mr Mahmoud belongs to the al-Sumaidy clan which believes its origins can be traced back to the Prophet Muhammed. He is described as both a writer and an entrepreneur.
2. Sondul Chapouk (Turkmen)
Ms Chapouk is one of just three women on the council. She is a trained engineer and teacher, as well as being a women's activist.
3. Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi National Congress (Shia)
Mr Chalabi is the leading figure in the Pentagon-backed INC, which he founded in 1992. It is thought he is viewed with suspicion by some Iraqis due to his proximity to the US administration and to the fact that he has been absent from Iraq for the best part of 45 years. NEWS SPORT
As leader of one of the foremost opposition movements, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), the former businessman has been tipped by some analysts as a possible successor to Saddam Hussein.
He was airlifted into the southern Iraqi town of Nasiriya by the Americans just a few days before US troops moved into Baghdad, reinforcing suspicions that the US regards him as one of its main allies within the Iraqi opposition.
A Shia Muslim born in 1945 in Baghdad to a wealthy banking family, Mr Chalabi left Iraq in 1956 and has lived mainly in the US and London ever since, except for a period in the mid-1990s when he tried to organise an uprising in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
The venture ended in failure with hundreds of deaths.
Soon after, the INC was routed from northern Iraq after Saddam Hussein's troops overran its base in Irbil.
A number of party officials were executed and others - including Mr Chalabi - fled the country.
A seasoned lobbyist in London and Washington who studied mathematics at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr Chalabi has been described as controversial, charismatic, determined, crafty and cunning.
Today, he has the backing of some top officials in the Bush administration.
His supporters include Vice-President Dick Cheney and senior figures in the Pentagon.
But other senior officials, including many in the US State Department and the British Government, do not believe Mr Chalabi has popular support among Iraqis and are concerned about fraud allegations made against him in the past.
For more than a decade, Mr Chalabi has been dogged by the collapse of a private bank he established in Jordan in the late 1980s, with the help of King Hussein's brother, Crown Prince Hassan.
Petra Bank, which became a leading private bank in the country, collapsed in 1990 amid allegations of financial impropriety by Mr Chalabi. Two years later, he was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court to 22 years in prison with hard labour. By this time, he had moved to Britain, where he had been granted citizenship.
Mr Chalabi protests his innocence and has always maintained the case was an Iraqi plot to frame him.
While living in London, Mr Chalabi founded the INC, a broad coalition of opposition forces committed to establishing democracy in Iraq.
He initially managed to get backing for the organisation from the American CIA, but there were allegations of corruption and the US pulled the financial plug.
He has been accused of using the INC to further his own political ambitions
But, in some interviews, Mr Chalabi has discounted the possibility he will take a role in any future government.
He did not attend the first US-brokered meeting of Iraqi representatives to start shaping a future government of the country, sending a representative instead.
And he told the French daily newspaper Le Monde that he was "not a candidate for any post".
4. Naseer al-Chaderchi, National Democratic Party (Sunni)
Leader of the NDP, Naseer al-Chaderchi is also a lawyer who lived in Iraq throughout Saddam's regime.
5. Adnan Pachachi, former foreign minister (Sunni)
Mr Pachachi served as a minister from 1965 to 1967 before Saddam Hussein's Baath Party came to power. He is a nationalist with a secular liberal outlook. He is thought to be particularly favoured by the US Department of State.
6. Mohammed Bahr al-Ulloum, cleric from Najaf (Shia)
A highly respected religious scholar viewed as a liberal. He fled Iraq in 1991 after several members of his family were killed by Saddam Hussein's regime.
7. Massoud Barzani, Kurdistan Democratic Party (Sunni Kurd)
Mr Barzani has led the KDP through decades of conflict with the Iraqi central government and with local rivals, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. He commands tens of thousands of armed militia fighters, known as peshmerga, and controls a large area of north-western Iraq.
8. Jalal Talabani, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (Sunni Kurd)
The veteran Kurdish leader is a lawyer by training. He split from the KDP in 1975 to form the PUK, which controls the south-east of northern Iraq.
9. Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution (Shia)
Number two in the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri), the sheikh is the brother of the council's leader Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, who wants an Islamic regime in Iraq. He has returned to Iraq after 23 years in exile. Abdelaziz Hakim is believed to be the first Iranian-backed Shia leader to return to Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
"Abdelaziz Hakim was given a warm welcome by thousands of people in Kut," said his son, Mohsen Hakim.
Iranian television showed pictures of the deputy chief being welcomed by supporters in the city, where the majority of the population is Shia.
Shias make up two-thirds of Iraq's 26 million people.
Mohsen Hakim said his father's role would be "to restore peace and security", but gave no further details.
Sciri boycotted a meeting of Iraqi religious and political leaders that was held on Tuesday near Nasiriya to chart the nation's political future.
"The meeting was not successful because it did not represent all the Iraqi groups," Mohsen Hakim said.
Ayatollah Hakim has also pledged to return to Iraq, although no date has been announced.
The ayatollah called for Iraqis to gather in Karbala on 23 April to mark the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the prophet Mohammad.
Imam Hussein was killed in 680AD in fighting that was the final act in the schism between Shia and Sunni Muslims that exists to this day.
10. Ahmed al-Barak, human rights activist (Shia)
Mr al-Barak is the head of the union of lawyers and human rights league in the central city of Babylon. 11. Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Daawa Islamic Party (Shia)
Mr al-Jaafari is the spokesman for Daawa, one the oldest of the Shia Islamist movements. The party was banned in 1980 and he fled the country.
12. Raja Habib al-Khuzaai, southern tribal leader (Shia)
Ms al-Khuazaai is in charge of a maternity hospital in southern Iraq. She studied and lived in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, before retuning to Iraq in 1977. Little is known about her political allegiances.
13. Aquila al-Hashimi, foreign affairs expert (Shia)
Ms al-Hashimi is a former diplomat who worked in the foreign ministry under Saddam Hussein. She holds a doctorate in French literature.
14. Younadem Kana, Assyrian Democratic Movement (Assyrian Christian)
Mr Kana is an engineer who served as an official for transport in the first Kurdish regional assembly and then as a trade minister in the regional government established in Erbil.
15. Salaheddine Bahaaeddin, Kurdistan Islamic Union (Sunni Kurd)
Mr Bahaaeddin founded the union in 1991 and became its secretary general three years later. It is the third most powerful force in Kurdish-dominated northern Iraq.
16. Mahmoud Othman (Sunni Kurd)
Mr Othman held various posts in the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the 1960s before moving to London. There he founded the Kurdish Socialist Party.
17. Hamid Majid Mousa, Communist Party (Shia)
Mr Mousa has been the secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party since 1993. An economist by training, he lived for several years in northern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War.
18. Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, northern tribal figure (Sunni)
Mr al-Yawer is a civil engineer who spent 15 years based in Saudi Arabia. He is a close relative of Sheikh Mohsen Adil al-Yawar, head of the powerful Shamar tribe, which comprises both Sunnis and Shia.
19. Ezzedine Salim, Daawa Islamic Party (Shia)
Mr Salim is the head of the Daawa Islamic Party, and is based in Basra.
20. Mohsen Abdel Hamid, Iraqi Islamic Party (Sunni)
A prolific author on the Koran, Mr Hamid is the secretary general of the Iraqi Islamic Party - the Iraqi branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
21. Iyad Allawi, Iraqi National Accord (Shia)
Mr Alawi set up the Iraqi National Accord in 1990. His group consists mainly of military and security defectors and for many years supported the idea that the US should try to foster a coup from within the Iraqi army. Its failure to engender this meant it became overshadowed by Mr Chalabi's INC.
22. Wael Abdul Latif, Basra governor (Shia)
Mr Latif has served as judge since the early 1980s and is currently deputy head of the Basra court. He was imprisoned for one year under the regime.
23. Mouwafak al-Rabii (Shia)
A British-educated doctor who lived for many years in London. He is also the author of a book on Iraqi Shia and a human rights activist.
24. Dara Noor Alzin, judge
A judge who was condemned to three years in jail under Saddam Hussein for ruling that one of his edicts on confiscating land was unconstitutional. He served eight months of his sentence before being released under general amnesty in October 2002.
25. Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi, Hezbollah from Amara (Shia)
Mr al-Mohammedawi has spent much of his life leading a resistance movement against Saddam Hussein in the southern marshes. He spent six years in jail under the regime.
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User Originated Comments:
From: ahmed chalabi
2004-02-25 00:00:00
i am disgusted at this man. he was born of a
wealthy family - has no character, why doesnt he
just go and live in the us. he is a digrace. i
cant think how he can call himself an arab when he
has so relied on the west to give him some power.
i would prefer saddam any day. i would like to
have known him when he lived in britain. he ran
away from some corruption scandal and he talks
about the ba'thists beimng corrupt. led an
uprising that was unsucessful. elisabeth mcguire
From: via
2004-02-08 00:00:00
number 5 is missing.. so is half of number 4
From: Ray
2004-01-09 00:00:00
have you ever wondered why the iraqi governing
council doesn't have a website?
the
coalition provisional authority has one. why not
the iraqi governing council>
From:
1999-11-30 00:00:00
From: zaki
1999-11-30 00:00:00
where is dr.adnan al-pachachi?
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