Hajim al-Hassani

Hadschim al - Hasani (Arabic حاجم الحسني, DMG Ḥādschim al - Hasani, born 1954 in Kirkuk ) is a Sunni and an Iraqi politician. He was 2005-2006 President of the Parliament of Iraq.

Training

Al- Hasani was at the University of Mosul, before he emigrated to the USA in 1979. There he studied agriculture and economics at the University of Nebraska and the University of Connecticut. After that, he spent 12 years in Los Angeles, where he was head of a trading and investment company. While he was in the U.S., he was active in the anti -Saddam opposition and member of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP ), which is attributed to the Muslim Brotherhood movement.

Policy

After the Iraq war, al - Hasani 2003 returned back to Iraq and worked in used by the coalition forces, Iraqi Governing Council. During this time, the IIP developed in the Sunni province of al - Anbar, which is a stronghold of terrorists, big impact. 2004 helped al - Hasani, negotiate a temporary cease-fire with insurgents in Fallujah.

In the transitional government that followed the Iraqi Governing Council, and in the secular Shiite Iyad Allawi was prime minister, al - Hasani was given the post of Minister of Industry. The privatization program of his ministry did not have much success. When he supported U.S. offensives in Fallujah, he was expelled from the IIP, as the party in protest at the U.S. military actions from the transitional government and al - Hasani had refused to give up his ministerial post.

After the Iraqi elections on January 30, 2005, in which al - Hasani took on the run by then- President Ghazi al - transition Yawar List The Iraqis, there were tough negotiations for the post of President of Parliament. As his rival candidates either connections to the regime of Saddam Hussein had what was unacceptable to the Shiites, members of the predominantly Shiite United Iraqi Alliance were, which was not acceptable to the Sunnis, or the post rejected ( did this Ghazi al - Yawar ), was al - Hasani chosen as a compromise candidate of the new National Assembly of Iraq to the President of Parliament.

Al- Hasani is considered by many Sunnis as an outsider, but he is a moderate Islamist. Immediately after his appointment he called " security and a functioning economy " as the most important goals of the new Iraqi government.

In September 2007, al - Hasani left the government coalition of Allawi, whom he accused of dictatorial behavior.