Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi

Bayan Baqir Sulagh (Arabic بيان باقر سولاغ, DMG Bayān Baqir Sūlāġ ), usually as Bayan Jabr known, a Shiite Turkmen, part of the SCIRI party, is the current Finance Minister and former Interior Minister of Iraq.

Sulagh comes from the south-eastern Iraqi province of Maysan. While he studied in the 1970s technology at the University of Baghdad, he was a Shia activist. When Saddam Hussein had carried out raids against political organizations of the Shiites, Sulagh fled to Iran. Later he joined the Shiite Islamist party Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq in ( SCIRI ). In the 1990s he was a representative of the SCIRI in Damascus in Syria; because he was afraid of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime could do something to his family, he called himself at that time Bayan Jabir.

After he returned to Iraq, he was in the Iraqi Interim Government under the then Prime Minister Iyad Allawi construction and home minister.

In the new Iraqi government, he is Secretary. Meanwhile, many Sunni politicians and clerics have called for the resignation Sulaghs because they make him responsible for the abuse and even killing of Sunni prisoners.

On 26 May 2005 Sulagh presented along with the Sunni Defense Minister Saadoun al- Dulaimi before an offensive to combat terrorism in Baghdad. As part of this initiative throughout Baghdad is cordoned off and there are a total of 40,000 police and soldiers used.