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Falah Hassan al-Naqib ( ar, فلاح حسن النقيب) is an
Iraq
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i politician and was the Minister of Interior under the
Iraqi Interim Government
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.
Biography
Born in 1956 in
Samarra
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, he is a
Sunni
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Arab
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. He trained in the
United States
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as a civil engineer. His father, General
Hassan al-Naqib, defected in the 1970s and became an active opposition member in exile.
An ally of Interim Prime Minister
Iyad Allawi
Ayad Allawi ( ar, إيَاد عَلَّاوِي ; born 31 May 1944) is an Iraqi politician. He served as the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. Previously he was interim prime minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and the ...
, he was named the governor of
Salah ad Din Governorate
The Saladin or Salah Al-Din Governorate ( ar, محافظة صلاح الدين) is one of Iraq's 19 governorates, north of Baghdad. It has an area of , with an estimated population of 1,042,200 people in 2003. It is made up of 8 districts, with t ...
after the fall of
Saddam Hussein
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, then he became the Minister of Interior,
from 2004 to 2005.
References
1956 births
Living people
People from Samarra
Members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq
Interior ministers of Iraq
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