Alaa Hussein Ali
Alaa Hussein Ali al - Chafadschi al - Jabir (Arabic علاء حسين علي خفاجي الجابير, DMG ʿ ʿ Alī Ḫafāǧī Alā ʾ Husain al - Ǧābir; * 1949 in Kuwait City ) was briefly Prime Minister of Kuwait and Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq. He was at the beginning of the Iraqi occupation from 2 to 8 August 1990, the first head of government of a republic in the history of Kuwait.
Life
Early years
In Kuwait, grew up as Kuwait and Baghdad were still together under British influence, Alaa Hussein Ali then studied in Baghdad, where he was made a member of the ruling Baath party. Just as two citizenships he had two wives - a Kuwaiti and an Iraqi.
People's Republic of Kuwait
After his return home he served as a lieutenant in 1990 those so-called coup attempt, which was calculated from the beginning to the intervention in Iraq. A small group of anti-monarchist matic officers and soldiers called upon the people waiting behind the border troops of Saddam Hussein as desired into the country. Iraq's President Hussein Alaa carried it immediately to the Supreme and made him the Premier, Defense and Interior Ministers of the " Provisional Government of Free Kuwait ". In Saddam Hussein's order he could overthrow the Emir, Republic of Kuwait cry and nationalize the oil wells. A week later he had to Kuwait after Iraq announce and rose to the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister. Also, most of the other 21,000 Kuwaiti military had initially not want to fight against the erstwhile Iraqi allies. The " coup revolutionary forces " but they did not want to connect - unlike the Palestinian guest workers, Republican Kuwait and parts of the Shiite minority. The Bedouins (mainly Anaiza ), which anyway always lived on both sides of the border, supporting the connection. With the reconquest of Kuwait and the restoration of the pre-revolutionary order by the U.S. allies many remained but to flee to Iraq, as well Alaa Hussein Ali.
Life in exile
According to Iraqi opposition figure Ali, who was also referred to disparagingly as " Kuwaiti quisling ", had gone on distance to foster father Saddam Hussein in 1994. In 1998 he managed to escape. Under an assumed name he got together with family asylum in Norway. Why he left this safe haven again later, remains mysterious. Supposedly, the Kuwaiti embassy had promised him protection if he 'll be used against his former patrons. His Iraqi woman remained skeptical back in Norway, Kuwait, however, accompanied him. Both were arrested on their arrival in Kuwait.
Conviction in Kuwait
Alaa's appeal trial against the 1993 death sentence imposed in the absence failed in May 2000, the execution was ordered. The death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment in March 2001.
In vain Alaa had argued to have been blackmailed by the Iraqis with the lives of his family and forced to work together. The other eight Kuwaiti officers in the puppet government in turn had Alaa Hussein Ali alleged to have blackmailed in this way. Unlike Alaa they were, who had also in 1990 and surrender without a fight, however, acquitted and rehabilitated or retired properly.