Salam al-Zaubai
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Salam al-Zaubai is the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq. He was elected to the Iraqi National Assembly in December 2005 as part of the Sunni Arab-led Iraqi Accord Front list.
He is from a well known tribe, the Zoba'a, and heads the Agriculture Engineers Union.[1]
On March 23, 2007, Zaubai was wounded in an attack involving a suicide bombing and car bombing at a mosque near his home in Baghdad, and he was taken to a U.S. military hospital in the Green Zone for surgery.[2] His adviser was reportedly killed in the attack, along with a number of his guards.[3][4] A brother and cousin of Zaubai, as well as the mosque's imam, were also said to have been killed.[5] The bomber attacked al-Zubaie a day after an al-Qaida umbrella group, the Islamic State of Iraq called him a stooge “to the crusader occupiers.” Hours after the assassination attempt the group claimed responsibility for the bombing.[6] On March 28, he was moved to Amman, Jordan for treatment at the King Hussein Medical Center, and he was released from the hospital on April 3.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ "Who's who in Iraq's new cabinet", BBC News, May 22, 2006.
- ^ "Iraq deputy PM injured in blast", BBC News, March 23, 2007.
- ^ Waleed Ibrahim, "Iraq deputy PM in hospital after suicide attack", Reuters (Mail & Guardian Online), March 23, 2007.
- ^ "Suicide blast hurts Iraq deputy PM", Al Jazeera, March 23, 2007.
- ^ "Iraqi deputy prime minister wounded in suicide bombing", Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), March 23, 2007.
- ^ "Highest-ranking Sunni official in Iraq target of mosque bombing", theworldlink, March 24, 2007.
- ^ "Iraqi deputy PM released from Jordan hospital after treatment of wounds sustained in suicide attack", Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), April 3, 2007.
