Ayad allawi biography books
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Around this time, Allawi had obtained a master’s degree in epidemiology at University College London and had nearly completed his doctoral thesis, in rheumatology, at Guy’s Hospital. He had begun to meet regularly with other exiles, but they had not yet formed an opposition group. Nonetheless, Saddam was clearly worried about their activities. “Saddam really started believing that we were forming a group to overthrow the regime,” Allawi said. Beginning in 1975, several of Allawi’s close friends were assassinated by hit men presumed to have been dispatched by Saddam. One was killed in Beirut; another was killed shortly after returning, against Allawi’s advice, to Baghdad. I asked Allawi why he thought that Saddam had not immediately targeted him for death. He explained that for years Saddam had tried to lure him back to the Party, sending envoys to London for that purpose. He had rejected those overtures.
In 1978, someone finally came after him. One night, Allawi and his wife, Athour, were asleep in their home in suburban London when two men, one of them wielding an axe, broke in and attacked. “I was hit in the head and the chest and the leg,” he recalled. “The bones in my leg were all sticking out— there was blood everywhere. My wife became badly injured in the attack also, t
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Ayad Allawi
Prime Minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005
Ayad Allawi (Arabic: إيَاد عَلَّاوِيIyād ʿAllāwī; born 31 May 1944) is an Iraqi politician. He served as the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018.[4][5][6] Previously he was interim prime minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and the president of the Governing Council of Iraq (38th prime minister of Iraq) in 2003.
A prominent Iraqi political activist who lived in exile for almost 30 years, Allawi, a Shia Muslim, became a member of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, which was established by U.S.-led coalition authorities following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He became Iraq's first head of government since Saddam Hussein when the council dissolved on 1 June 2004, and named him prime minister of the Iraqi Interim Government. His term as prime minister ended on 7 April 2005, after the selection of Islamic Dawa Party leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari by the newly elected transitional Iraqi National Assembly.[7]
A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. In the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the INA provided intelligence about alleged weapons of mass destruction to MI6. Allawi has lived about half
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Voices from Iraq: A People's History, 2003-2009
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