Misha'an al-Juburi

Misha'an al-Juburi
Member of the Council of Representatives
In office January 2005 – 2006
Governor of Ninawa
In office March 2003 – May 2003
Appointed by	Self appointed
Preceded by	Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat
Succeeded by	Herro Mustafa
Personal details
Born	1955 Al-Shirqat, Iraq
Political party	Al-Arabiya Coalition (2014-present)
Other political affiliations	Ba'ath Party (?-?) Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc (1995-2008)
Occupation	Politician, Businessman, Journalist
Religion	Sunni Islam

Misha'an al-Juburi is an Iraqi politician from the Sunni Arab community, and member of Al-Arabiya Coalition He also was the head of Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc, which held three seats in the Iraqi Council of Representatives from 2005-2010. Juburi is the publisher of the al-Itijah al-Akhar newspaper and the owner of the Syrian-based Arrai TV. He is a Sheikh of the Al-Jiburi tribe, which is powerful in Salahuddin Governorate. As of 2016, he is a senior member of a parliamentary committee investigating official corruption, despite admitting to The Guardian in an interview that he is himself corrupt.

Al-Juburi was born in the mid-1950s in the town of al-Shirkat, located between Tikrit and Mosul. His father was a junior Sheikh of a branch of the powerful Juburi tribe.

In an interview in 1995, Juburi said the President met him in 1975 and gave him cash, a car and facilitated him becoming a journalist, buying his loyalty and admiration. During the Iran–Iraq War, he helped Saddam recruit 50,000 Juburi people to form the Special Republican Guard and Republican Guard. He said he became an "intimate friend" of Uday Hussein and "enjoyed the pleasures of Baghdad".

In the late 1980s, his young son died and he went on television to criticise the hospital as incompetent, which resulted in him being jailed. After he was released he moved away from politics towards business, exporting wool from Salahuddin to Britain.

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