Iraqi Governing Council

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An advisory body created by the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority, the Iraqi Governing Council advised the CPA and other stakeholders, such as UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, on governance questions, de-Ba'athification, and forming the Interim Iraqi Government. [1] It was formed in July 2003, and had 25 members:

* 13 Shia
* 5 Sunni Arabs
* 5 Sunni Kurds
* 1 Sunni Turkoman
* 1 Assyrian Christian

In actuality the IGC announced itself on 13 July 2003, to suggest it was an all-Iraqi process, and took the Iraqi seat at the UN without ever being recognized as the Government of Iraq. [2] The transition to a sovereign Iraqi Government would take another 11 months, when the Interim Iraqi Government (IIG) assumed political authority from the CPA. While the IIG would be sovereign, there still would be a major and dominant US troop presence that would not withdraw fully from the cities until 2009.

Name  | Religion/Ethnicity (exile)  | Affiliation

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Sayyed Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum  | Shi'a |
Ahmed Chalabi  | Shi'a | Iraqi National Congress
Ayad Alawi  | Shi'a | Iraqi National Accord (INA)
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim  | Shi'a | Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)
Ibrahim al-Jaafari  | Shi'a | Islamic Dawa Party
Mowaffak al-Rubaie  | Shi'a | former Da’wa
Wael Abdul Latif  | Shi'a  | a judge in Basra since 1982 who was named interim governor of the city in June 2003
Hamid Majeed Mousa  | Shi'a  | Iraqi Communist Party
Shiekh Ahmad Shyaa al-Barak  | "  | Al-Bu Sultan Tribe
Raja Habib Khuzai  | a female doctor who heads a maternity hospital in the southern city of Diwaniyah.
Ezzidin Salim also known as Abdul Zahra Othman Muhammad  | Dawa from Basra (assassinated May 17)
Abdul Karim al-Muhammadawi  | Iraqi Party of God
Salama al-Khufaji  | a female professor of dentistry at Baghdad University from Karbala
Adnan Pachachi  | Sunni | Independent Democratic Movement
Samir Shakir Mahmoud al-Sumaidy  | Sunni | Sumaidy clan
Ghazi al-Yawar  | Sunni | nephew of Sheikh Mohsen Adil al-Yawar, head of the powerful Shamar tribe
Naseer Kamel Chaderchi  | Sunni  | National Democratic Party of Iraq (NDP)
Moshen Abdul Hameed  | Sunni  | Iraqi Islamic Party
Massoud Barzani  | Kurd  | Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
Jalal Talabani  | Kurd  | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
Salahaddin Mohammed Bahaddin  | Sunni Kurd  | Kurdistan Islamic Union
Dara Nor al-Din  | Kurd from Kirkuk  |
Mahmoud Othman  | Kurd  | Kurdish Socialist Party
Songul Chapouk  | Turkmen from Mosul  | Iraqi Women’s Organization
Yonadem Kannae  | Christian  | Assyrian Democratic Movement (also represents Chaldeans)

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Sharon Otterman (17 May 2004), IRAQ: Iraq's Governing Council, Council on Foreign Relations
2. ↑ Ali Allawi (2007), The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300110159, pp. 166-167