Iraqi National Congress
The Iraqi National Congress ( Arabic المؤتمر الوطني العراقي al-Motammar al-Watani al-'Iraqi , Iraqi National Congress [INC] ) is a party-like organizationfounded in 1992 andled by Ahmad Chalabi .
history
The organization was founded after the Second Gulf War with financial support from the US government under President George H. W. Bush . The aim was to overthrow Saddam Hussein .
The INC was originally formed as an umbrella organization for various opposition groups , the members of which were mostly politicians living in exile . The seat of the organization was London . Kurds , Sunnis , Shiites , nationalists and former generals gather in the INC . The INC is under the leadership of the secular Shiite Chalabi and generally sees itself as a secular organization.
In 1995 the INC participated in an attempted coup against Saddam Hussein, which was supported by the US intelligence service CIA .
After the Third Gulf War and the end of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, the INC took part in the election for the National Assembly on January 30, 2005 . The INC candidates were on the list of the predominantly Shiite United Iraqi Alliance , which emerged victorious from the election.
The INC chairman, Chalabi, was elected Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq and thus Ibrahim al-Jafari's deputy.