Ahmed Chalabi
Ahmad Abd al -Hadi al - Dschalabi (Arabic: أحمد عبد الهادي الجلبي, DMG Aḥmad ʿ Abd al - Hādī al - Ǧalabī; Ahmad Chalabi and Ahmad Dschalabi, sometimes Ahmed Chalabi written; born October 30, 1944) is an Iraqi mathematics professor, politician and leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC ), an Iraqi party and former umbrella organization for various Iraqi opposition groups.
Life
During the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, the Shiite Chalabi lived with a British passport in exile in London and was a protege of Defense of the United States.
He is considered a controversial figure because he had been convicted in 1992 in Jordan after the collapse of the banking firm he founded Petra Bank for fraud and embezzlement in absentia to 22 years in prison. By 2005, was against him before a Jordanian arrest warrant, which was annulled after talks between the Iraqi president Jalal Talabani with Jordan's King Abdullah II. In addition, he is said to have misappropriated U.S. grants. The U.S. government favored Chalabi as prime minister after the fall of Saddam Hussein, then moved but from him, not least because the CIA found out through a wiretapped phone call of an Iranian secret service employee that Chalabi had betrayed this, that the CIA has claimed the Iranian communications code have. Supposedly the CIA Chalabi, against the temporarily existed a warrant, have exonerated later because Chalabi documents from Saddam's secret knowledge about stressful events and famous people associated with the " oil for food " program of the UN possessed. In 2004, when the old banknotes were replaced with the portrait of Saddam Hussein by new banknotes, Chalabi said to have "saved " along with his confidant INC old banknotes worth $ 27 million from the incinerators. In fact, during a house search some burnt notes the proceedings against him were found, but terminated without notice. Chalabi was nicknamed " Ali Baba from Baghdad ".
At the parliamentary elections in Iraq on January 30, 2005 Chalabi took as one of 228 candidates on the part of the United Iraqi Alliance list. This electoral alliance emerged as the winner of the elections. As a result, Chalabi tried it, to be the candidate of the Alliance for the post of prime minister, but ultimately withdrew his ambitions in favor of Ibrahim al - Jafari back.
In the cabinet of the new Iraqi government of Prime Minister Ibrahim al - Jaafari, which was confirmed in April 2005 by the Parliament, Ahmed Chalabi is one of four deputy prime ministers. In addition, he served for a short time as oil minister, Ibrahim Bahr al - Ulum to got the job.
He is the uncle of Finance Minister Ali Abd al -Amir Allawi.