Hakim Abbas Mousa Abbas al-Zamili is an Iraqi politician from the
Sadrist Movement who was Deputy Health Minister from May 2006 until April 2007. Since January 2022, he is the First Deputy Speaker of the
House of Representatives (Parliament).
Health Ministry
al-Zamili was deputy minister during the height of the sectarian conflict in Iraq. Whilst he was at the ministry, he was accused of running death squads that used ambulances and hospitals to kidnap and murder Sunni Arabs. U.S. troops arrested al-Zamili in February 2007, accusing him of funneling money to
private militias. He was also accused of kidnapping in November 2006 another Deputy Health Minister,
Ammar al-Saffar
Ammar al-Saffar (born 1956) was the Deputy Health Minister of Iraq from 2003 until his kidnapping and likely death in 2006. On November 19, 2006, he became the highest-ranking Iraqi official to be kidnapped when he was seized by men in police unif ...
, from the Shiite
Dawa Party, who had allegedly compiled a dossier of his crimes that he was going to hand over to the Prime Minister. He was cleared of all charges when key witnesses failed to show up after facing alleged intimidation.
Member of parliament
He was listed fifteenth on the list of the
Iraqi National Alliance slate for the
2010 Iraqi parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 7 March 2010. The elections decided the 325 members of the Council of Representatives who would elect the prime minister and president. The elections resulted in a partial victory for the Iraqi Nationa ...
. He was elected and in January 2011 was appointed to the security committee. Zamili is currently the head of Parliament's security and defense committee.
He was re-elected to Parliament in the
2021 Iraqi parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 10 October 2021. The elections decide the 329 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi president and confirm the prime minister. 25 million voters are eligible to take ...
. He was elected deputy speaker of parliament in January 2022.
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Government ministers of Iraq
Legislative deputy speakers
Members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq
Sadrist Movement politicians