Iyad Allawi

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Iyad Allawi

Iyad Allawi ( Arabic إياد علاوي, DMG Iyād ʿAllāwī ; * 1945 in Baghdad ) is an Iraqi politician. He was a member of the transitional government that was deployed under their protection after the Third Gulf War and the invasion of the US- led troops . He has been one of the three Vice Presidents of Iraq since October 10, 2016.

Life

Allawi is a secular Shiite Muslim and neurologist and was a member of the Ba'ath Party under Saddam Hussein . His grandfather was involved in the independence negotiations with Great Britain in 1932. The son of a wealthy and respected Shiite family of traders, studied medicine at Baghdad University . In 1970 he left Iraq and went to London . There he studied at the University of London and received a Master of Science degree in 1976 and a PhD three years later. While in exile in London he founded the Iraqi National Accord (INA) party . This organization relies primarily on former military personnel who left Saddam Hussein's Iraq. In 1978, Allawi survived an attack in London attributed to Saddam's agents. As one of the first Iraqi dissidents, Allawi had ties to the CIA and MI6 .

Since 2003, Allawi has paid prominent Washington, DC lobbyists and New York public relations consultants more than $ 300,000 to liaise with decision makers and journalists. These funds were handed over through his confidante in the UK , Maschal Nawab .

On May 28, 2004, Allawi was nominated by the Council as Interim Prime Minister to lead Iraq after the United States took over power until the elections in late 2005. On June 1, he introduced the 26 prospective members of his government , some of whom had already belonged to the transitional council . For a certain continuity stood u. a. Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari ( Kurdish ) and Oil Minister Thamir Abbas Ghadban .

According to the memoirs of Talib Shabib , Allawi's political career began around 1963 as an assassin . These memoirs were published in 1999 by Ali Karim Said Abdullah al-Khafaji, an Iraqi activist and historian .

On June 19 or 20, 2004, Allawi is said to have shot and killed six alleged insurgents in the police station of al-Amariyya with his own hands in order to demonstrate harshness towards the police. Allawi denies this.

In the run-up to a state visit by Allawi in Berlin, several people were arrested on December 3, 2004 by anti-terror units. You are accused by the German investigative authorities of preparing a bomb attack . These members of the radical Islamic association Ansar al-Islam , including Rafik Yousef , were sentenced on July 15, 2008 by the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court after two years of trial with 141 trial days to long prison terms.

The party alliance Iraqi List ( Iraqi List ), which he led in the election and his party INA belongs, was financially and politically supported before the first free elections in Iraq after the Saddam era by the US, and was in the elections of January 30, 2005 third strongest force with 14%. The party received 40 seats in the 275-seat parliament . Allawi refused to become a minister from the start, preferring to be a member of parliament. That made no difference, however, as negotiations between his party and the two election winners, the United Iraqi Alliance and the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan, failed and his party went completely into opposition . In the recently formed parliamentary committee to form a new Iraqi constitution, however, the Iraqi list is represented in a proportion corresponding to the election result.

The public became aware of Allawi's complaint about the catastrophic human rights situation in Iraq. The violations in 2005 were as bad as under the regime of the overthrown dictator Saddam Hussein. “People are doing the same thing as in Saddam's time and worse,” Allawi told the British “ Observer ”.

In the Iraqi parliamentary elections in 2010 , Allawi narrowly emerged as the winner. The interdenominational alliance Irakija led by him had 91 seats.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ijad Allawi . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/2005 from June 11, 2005 (la), supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 10/2010 (accessed on March 27, 2010 via Munzinger-Online )
  2. ^ John Newhouse: Diplomacy, Inc. In: Foreign Affairs 88 (May 2009 – June 2009), No. 3, p. 73
  3. ↑ Kevin Bogardus: Lobby firm to change contract for former Iraqi prime minister . In: The Hill, September 5, 2007, p. 16
  4. ^ Paul McGeough: Red Cross named jail before alleged killings . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , July 23, 2004, p. 1
  5. ^ Peter Beaumont: Abuse worse than under Saddam, says Iraqi leader . In: The Observer , November 27, 2005, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Allawi, Iyad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allawi, Ayad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi politician and prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Baghdad