Adil Abdul-Mahdi

Adil Abd al -Mahdi, also Abdalmahdi Adil (Arabic: عادل عبد المهدي, DMG ʿ ʿ Adil Abd al -Mahdi, born 1942 in Baghdad ) is an Iraqi politician. The Shiite was 2005-2011 Vice- President of Iraq, and thus a member of the Iraqi Presidential Council, which also Sunni Vice President Tariq al - Hashimi and the Kurdish President Jalal Talabani belonged.

Life

He belonged to a removal of the Iraqi Communist Party, before turning to political Islam. He is the son of a Shiite cleric, who was at the time of the monarchy in Iraq Minister (ie before 1958). Since 1969 he was in France in exile from the following development of Iraq. He now belongs to the influential party Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which is part of the victorious in the parliamentary elections on 30 January 2005 Alliance United Iraqi Alliance.