Salam al-Zaubai (Arabic: سلام الزوبعي; 1958/1959 – 19 December 2022)[1] was an Iraqi politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq from 20 May 2006 to 1 August 2007 as well as the acting Defence Minister from 20 May 2006 to 8 June 2006.[2] He was elected to the Iraqi National Assembly in December 2005 as part of the Sunni Arab-led Iraqi Accord Front list.
Salam al-Zaubai | |
|---|---|
 DPM Salam al-Zaubai (second from right) |
He was from a well known tribe, the Zoba'a, and headed the Agriculture Engineers Union.[3]
On 23 March 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.[4] His adviser was reportedly killed in the attack, along with a number of his guards.[5][6] A brother and cousin of Zaubai, as well as the mosque's imam, were also said to have been killed.[7] 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.[8] On 28 March, he was moved to Amman, Jordan for treatment at the King Hussein Medical Center, and he was released from the hospital on 3 April.[9]
References
edit- ^ وفاة ’سلام الزوبعي’ نائب رئيس الوزراء الأسبق (in Arabic)
- ^ IBP, Inc (3 March 2012). Iraq Country Study Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments. Lulu.com. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-4387-7463-3.[self-published source]
- ^ "Who's who in Iraq's new cabinet", BBC News, 22 May 2006.
- ^ "Iraq deputy PM injured in blast", BBC News, 23 March 2007.
- ^ Waleed Ibrahim, "Iraq deputy PM in hospital after suicide attack" Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Reuters (Mail & Guardian Online), 23 March 2007.
- ^ "Suicide blast hurts Iraq deputy PM", Al Jazeera, 23 March 2007.
- ^ "Iraqi deputy prime minister wounded in suicide bombing", Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), 23 March 2007.
- ^ "Highest-ranking Sunni official in Iraq target of mosque bombing", theworldlink, 24 March 2007.
- ^ "Iraqi deputy PM released from Jordan hospital after treatment of wounds sustained in suicide attack", Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), 3 April 2007.