Mithal al-Alusi
| Mithal al-Alusi | |
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| مثال جمال حسين احمد الآلوسي | |
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Member of Parliament for Baghdad |
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In office 15 December 2005 – 7 March 2010 |
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| Head of the Supreme National De-Baathification Commission | |
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In office 4 November 2003 – September 2004 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 23, 1953 Alus, Haditha, Al Anbar Governorate, Kingdom of Iraq |
| Nationality |
Iraqi German |
| Political party | Iraqi Ummah Party (2004-Present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Iraqi National Congress (2003-September 2004) Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region (until 1976) |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Mithal Jamal Hussein Ahmad al-Alusi (Arabic: مثال جمال حسين احمد الآلوسي; born 23 May 1953) is an Iraqi politician and the leader of the Iraqi Ummah Party. He was elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives as an independent in the December 2005 election and was once again elected in the 2014 Iraqi parliamentary election as part of the Civil Democratic Alliance which is an Iraqi political coalition formed by various liberal and civil figures and his party one seat, represented by himself. He arrived fifth place in Baghdad out of seventy-one seats. He is a Sunni Muslim Arab politician and supports a close alliance with the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Israel. He holds a German passport from his time in exile there.
Alusi was born on the 23 May 1953 in Alus, a small village near Haditha, in Al-Anbar governorate. Al-Alusi hails from a very prominent Iraqi Sunni family from Anbar Province, and his father was a renowned scholar and Baghdad University professor of Classical Arabic literature.
In 1976, he was sentenced to death in absentia while studying in Cairo for trying to undermine Saddam Hussein. Alusi was then a member of the Ba'ath Party, but had been aligned with opponents of Saddam within the party such as Abdel-Khaliq Al-Samara'i, who was himself killed by the security services. Alusi went into exile in Germany and worked as a businessman. In December 2002, he was involved in the takeover of the Iraqi embassy in Berlin to protest Saddam's tyranny, and was convicted of hostage taking by a German court and sentenced to three years in jail. His sentence was later reduced to house arrest. He returned to Iraq in October 2003 and joined the Iraqi National Congress. [1]
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