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Ahmad Chalabi

Ahmed Chalabi
أحمد الجلبي
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Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
In office
1 May 2005 – 20 May 2006
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Preceded by Rowsch Shaways
Succeeded by Barham Salih
Minister of Oil
In office
16 April 2005 – 1 January 2006
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Preceded by Bahr al-Ulloum
Succeeded by Hussain al-Shahristani
President of the Governing Council of Iraq
In office
1 September 2003 – 30 September 2003
Leader Paul Bremer
Preceded by Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Succeeded by Ayad Allawi
Personal details
Born Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi
(1944-10-30)30 October 1944
Kadhimiya, Iraq
Died 3 November 2015(2015-11-03) (aged 71)
Kadhimiya, Iraq
Political party Iraqi National Congress
Spouse(s) Leila Osseiran
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Chicago
Religion Shiite Islam

Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi (Arabic: أحمد عبد الهادي الجلبي‎‎; 30 October 1944 – 3 November 2015) was an Iraqi politician, a founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC).

He was interim Minister of Oil in Iraq in April–May 2005 and December 2005 – January 2006 and Deputy Prime Minister from May 2005 to May 2006. Chalabi failed to win a seat in parliament in the December 2005 elections, and when the new Iraqi cabinet was announced in May 2006, he was not given a post. Once dubbed the "George Washington of Iraq" by American supporters, he later fell out of favor and came under investigation by several U.S. government sources. He was also the subject of a 2008 biography by investigative journalist Aram Roston, The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, And Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi and a 2011 biography by 60 Minutes producer Richard Bonin, Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi's Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq.

Chalabi was a controversial figure, especially in the United States, for many reasons.

In the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), with the assistance of lobbying powerhouse BKSH & Associates, provided a major portion of the information on which U.S. Intelligence based its condemnation of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, including reports of weapons of mass destruction and alleged ties to al-Qaeda. Most, if not all, of this information has turned out to be false and Chalabi has been called a fabricator.


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