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An advisory body created by the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority, the Iraqi Governing Council advised the CPA and other stakeholders, such as UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, on governamce questions, debaathification, and forming the Interim Iraqi Government.[1] It was formed in July 2003, and had 25 members:
- 13 Shia
- 5 Sunni Arabs
- 5 Sunni Kurds
- 1 Sunni Turkoman
- 1 Assyrian Christian
The transition to a sovereign Iraqi Government would take another 11 months, when the Interim Iraqi Government (IIG) assumed political authority from the CPA. While the IIG would be sovereign, there still would be a major and dominant US troop presence that would not withdraw fully from the cities until 2009.
| Name | Religion/Ethnicity (exile) | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Sayyed Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum | Shi'a | |
| Ahmed Chalabi | Shi'a | Iraqi National Council |
| Iyad Alawi | Shi'a | Iraqi National Accord (INA) |
| Abdul Aziz al-Hakim | Shi'a | Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) |
| Ibrahim Jafari | Shi'a | Islamic Dawa Party |
| Mowaffak al-Rubaie | Shi'a | former Da’wa |
| Wael Abdul Latif, | Shi'a | a judge in Basra since 1982 who was named interim governor of the city in June 2003 |
| Hamid Majeed Mousa | Shi'a | Iraqi Communist Party |
| Shiekh Ahmad Shyaa al-Barak | " | Al-Bu Sultan Tribe |
| Raja Habib Khuzai | " | a female doctor who heads a maternity hospital in the southern city of Diwaniyah. |
| Ezzidin Salim also known as Abdul Zahra Othman Muhammad | " | Dawa from Basra (assassinated May 17) |
| Abdul Karim al-Muhammadawi | " | Iraqi Party of God |
| Salama al-Khufaji | " | a female professor of dentistry at Baghdad University from Karbala |
| Adnan Pachachi | Sunni | Independent Democratic Movement |
| Samir Shakir Mahmoud al-Sumaidy | Sunni | Sumaidy clan |
| Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar | Sunni | nephew of Sheikh Mohsen Adil al-Yawar, head of the powerful Shamar tribe |
| Naseer Kamel Chaderchi | Sunni | National Democratic Party of Iraq (NDP) |
| Moshen Abdul Hameed | Sunni | Iraqi Islamic Party |
| Massoud Barzani | Kurd | Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) |
| Jalal Talabani | Kurd | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) |
| Salahaddin Mohammed Bahaddin | Sunni Kurd | Kurdistan Islamic Union |
| Dara Nor al-Din | Kurd from Kirkuk | |
| Mahmoud Othman | Kurd | Kurdish Socialist Party |
| Songul Chapouk | Turkmen from Mosul | Iraqi Women’s Organization |
| Yonadem Kannae | Christian | Assyrian Democratic Movement (also represents Chaldeans) |
References
- ↑ Sharon Otterman (17 May 2004), IRAQ: Iraq's Governing Council, Council on Foreign Relations