Salam al-Zaubai (1958/1959 – 19 December 2022) 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

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from 20 May 2006 to 8 June 2006. He was elected to the

Iraqi National Assembly 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 legislature o ...

in December 2005 as part of the

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Arab-led

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list. He was from a well known tribe, the Zoba'a, and headed the Agriculture Engineers Union. 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."Iraq deputy PM injured in blast"
BBC News, 23 March 2007. His adviser was reportedly killed in the attack, along with a number of his guards.Waleed Ibrahim
"Iraq deputy PM in hospital after suicide attack"
, Reuters (''Mail & Guardian Online''), 23 March 2007.
Al Jazeera, 23 March 2007. A brother and cousin of Zaubai, as well as the mosque's imam, were also said to have been killed. 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."Highest-ranking Sunni official in Iraq target of mosque bombing"
theworldlink, 24 March 2007. On 28 March, he was moved to

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, Jordan for treatment at the King Hussein Medical Center, and he was released from the hospital on 3 April."Iraqi deputy PM released from Jordan hospital after treatment of wounds sustained in suicide attack"
Associated Press (''International Herald Tribune''), 3 April 2007.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:al-Zaubai, Salam 1950s births 2022 deaths Iraqi Sunni Muslims Government ministers of Iraq Members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq Year of birth missing 21st-century Iraqi politicians