Ahmad al-Jalabi
Ahmad Abd al-Hadi al-Jalabi ( Arabic أحمد عبد الهادي الجلبي, DMG Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Ǧalabī ; also written as Ahmad Tschalabi or Ahmad Jalabi , sometimes also Ahmed Chalabi ; * October 30, 1944 ; † November 3, 2015 ) was an Iraqi mathematics professor , politician and chairman of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), an Iraqi party and a former umbrella organization for various Iraqi opposition groups.
Life
During the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein , the Shiite al-Jalabi with a British passport lived in exile in London and was considered a protégé of the United States Department of Defense .
He is considered a controversial figure because he was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment in absentia for fraud and embezzlement in Jordan in 1992 after the collapse of the Petra Bank, which he founded. A Jordanian arrest warrant had been issued against him until 2005, but this was overturned after talks between Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and the Jordanian King Abdullah II . He is also said to have embezzled US grants. The US government favored al-Jalabi as prime minister after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, but then moved away from him, not least because the CIA found out through a bugged phone call of an Iranian secret service employee that al-Jalabi had revealed to him that the CIA cracked the Iranian communication code. Allegedly, the CIA allegedly exonerated al-Jalabi, against whom an arrest warrant was temporarily available, because al-Jalabi had knowledge of incriminating incidents and well-known personalities in connection with the UN's oil-for-food program from records of the Saddam secret service . When the old banknotes with the likeness of Saddam Hussein were replaced by new banknotes in 2004 , al-Jalabi is said to have "rescued" old banknotes worth US $ 27 million from the incinerators together with confidants of his INC. In fact, some burnt notes were found during a house search, but the proceedings against him were dropped without explanation. Al-Jalabi was nicknamed " Ali Baba of Baghdad ".
In the parliamentary elections in Iraq on January 30, 2005, al-Jalabi took part as one of 228 candidates on the list of the United Iraqi Alliance . This electoral alliance emerged as the winner of the elections. As a result, al-Jalabi tried to become the Alliance's candidate for the office of prime minister, but ultimately withdrew his ambitions in favor of Ibrahim al-Jafari .
In the cabinet of the new Iraqi government of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari, which was ratified by parliament in April 2005, Ahmed al-Jalabi was one of four deputy prime ministers. He also served as oil minister for a short time until Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum got the job.
He is the uncle of former Finance Minister Ali Abd al-Amir Allawi .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephen Kalin, Saif Hameed: Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi who pushed Bush to invade Iraq dies. In: Reuters , November 3, 2015 (English).
literature
- Ahmad Chalabi in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- David Pratt: Unveiled: the thugs Bush wants in place of Saddam ( Memento of January 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) If Saddam Hussein is America's frying-pan, these men are the fire into which President Bush may be jumping. Some of the highly assorted and far from loveable would-be beneficiaries of Iraqi "regime change" ( Sunday Herald , September 22, 2002)
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| SURNAME | Jalabi, Ahmad al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jalabi, Ahmad Abd al-Hadi al-; Jalabi, Ahmad; Chalabi, Ahmed; أحمد عبد الهادي الجلبي (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iraqi math professor and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1944 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 2015 |