Abdul Nasir Karim Yusuf al-Janabi is an
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...
i politician and a former
member
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of the
Iraqi Council of Representatives
The Council of Representatives ( ar, مجلس النواب, Majlis an-Nuwwāb al-ʿIrāqiyy; ku, ئهنجومهنی نوێنهران, ''Enjumen-e Nûnerên''), usually referred to simply as the Parliament is the unicameral legislatur ...
for the
Sunni Arab
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-led
Iraqi Accord Front
The Iraqi Accord Front or Iraqi Accordance Front (Arabic: جبهة التوافق العراقية ''Jabhet Al-Tawafuq Al-'Iraqiyah'') also known as Tawafuq is an Iraqi Sunni political coalition created on October 26, 2005 by the Iraqi Islamic Par ...
.
A
Salafist
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, he was appointed in 2005 to the
committee
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which drafted the
constitution of Iraq. Following the drafting, he called for the
Arab League and
United Nations
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to intervene to prevent it being passed into law.
He was elected in the
Iraqi legislative election of December 2005 as one of the Front's 44 MPs, from the
Iraqi National Dialogue Council party.
In October 2006 a woman was killed when mortar rounds hit his house in
Mussayab,
Babil
''Bābili(m)''
* sux, 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠
* arc, 𐡁𐡁𐡋 ''Bāḇel''
* syc, ܒܒܠ ''Bāḇel''
* grc-gre, Βαβυλών ''Babylṓn''
* he, בָּבֶל ''Bāvel''
* peo, 𐎲𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎽𐎢 ''Bābiru''
* elx, 𒀸𒁀𒉿𒇷 ''Babi ...
Governorate.
In March 2007 the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council requested that the Council of Representatives lift his parliamentary immunity to face charges of kidnappings and terrorism. This followed an exchange in Parliament the previous month with Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki
Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki ( ar, نوري المالكي; born 20 June 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki (), is secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party and was the prime minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and the vice president ...
, who said he was involved in the kidnapping and murder of 150 Shiites near
Hilla
Hillah ( ar, ٱلْحِلَّة ''al-Ḥillah''), also spelled Hilla, is a city in central Iraq on the Hilla branch of the Euphrates River, south of Baghdad. The population is estimated at 364,700 in 1998. It is the capital of Babylon Province a ...
in
Anbar province.
In July 2007 Janabi announced he was resigning from the Front and parliament and "''joining the armed resistance''". The Front and INDC responded by saying that they had expelling him, describing him as a "troublemaker".
Accord Front Announces It Has Expelled Parliament Member Abd Al Nasir Al Janabi
''Iraq News Monitor'', 2007-07-13, accessed on 2007-07-17
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Living people
Members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq
Iraqi National Dialogue Council politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
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