Nouri Al-Maliki

Nouri Kamel Al-Maliki (rear RTL نوريكاملالمالكي) (also known under its old name of war of Jawad al-Maliki, that it decides not to use more starting from its accession with the capacity) (born in 1950), is the Prime Minister Iraq IEN since the April 22nd 2006.

He is member of the party Islamiste Chiite Dawa.

Nouri Al-Maliki is married and father of four children, three girls and a son.

Its beginnings

Born in Abou Gharaq, in the Iraqi South, in 1950, Nouri Kamal Al-Maliki then studied with Baghdad. It obtained a diploma of higher learning in Arab Littérature at the university of the city.

It is at the end of the years 1960, whereas it is still student, that it returns to the party Dawa.

In 1980, whereas the Iran has just known its Islamic revolution, the Iraq worries about activism Chiite, and represses in particular the Dawa. Maliki leaves in exile in Iran, then in Syria.

In Syria, it takes the head of the office " jihad" Dawa, in load of the actions against the Iraqi interests abroad. It then takes its name of war of " Jawad".

After the fall of Saddam Hussein

Of return in Iraq after the invasion, Maliki becomes number two of the Committee of debassification charged to purge the old sole party with the capacity.

He is elected with assembled national in January 2005.

He is, in the camp Chiite, one of the principal participants in the drafting of the Iraqi constitution.

The May 20th 2006, it is established with the head of a government of 37 members. It succeeds the Chiite Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, that neither Sunnite S, nor Kurdish S wanted to maintain with the capacity. Its constitutional mandate ends in 2010.

Political positions

Many Sunnite S reproaches Maliki its proximity with the Iran, and the character sometimes sectarian of its declarations, in which it stigmatizes in particular the partisans with Saddam Hussein, and the monks Sunnite S.

The the United States also, even if they post their support to him, aggravate sometimes its lack of eagerness to disarm the Milice S Chiite S, culprits of Community exactions.

Islamist Shiite, conservative, it is also criticized for standpoint sometimes considered as Antisémite S. But it is itself under pressure of a preserving Iraqi public opinion, as by the presence important within its government and of the Parliament of the current of Moqtada al-Sadr.

One also reproaches him a policy of oppression as regards Freedom of the press. It maintained the closing of the offices in Iraq of the chain Al-Jazira, makes close those of Al-Arabiya, like several other chains of less importance, which all are held by sunnites.

See too

List of the current leaders

External bonds

Portrait of Nouri Al-Maliki on the site of Cermam

Article polemizes on the reaction of Bush after the execution of Saddam Hussein

Bonds in English:

Portrait of Maliki on the site of the BBC

List articles published in NewYork Times on Nouri Al-Maliki

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