Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi

Baqir Jabr Al-Zubeidi (Arabic: باقر جبر الزبيدي‎), also known as Bayan Jabr Solagh, served as the Finance Minister of Iraq in the government of Nouri al-Maliki. He served as Minister of Interior, in charge of the police, in the Iraqi Transitional Government and was Minister of Housing and Reconstruction of the Iraqi Governing Council. He is a senior member of the Shi'a United Iraqi Alliance as well as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). Unlike most Shi'a of Iraq, Baqir Jabr is of mixed Turkish and Kurdish ancestry.^{[citation needed]}

Born in 1946 in the Maysan Governorate [1], Jabr became a Shi'a activist while studying engineering at Baghdad University in the 1970s. He fled to Iran amid Saddam Hussein's crackdown on Shi'a political groups and joined the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). He later headed SCIRI's office in Syria.

On January 3, 2006, his sister was reported kidnapped by Iraqi insurgents[2]. She was released two weeks later after ransom was paid.

References

• BBC News (2003-09-01). "Iraq's post-war cabinet". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3199561.stm. Retrieved 2006-02-24. 
• "Iraq official defends 'torture' facility". CNN. 2005-11-18. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/17/iraq.detainees/index.html. 
• "Death squads operated from inside Iraqi government, officials say". Knight Ridder. 2006-03-12. http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14083330.htm. 
• Knickmeyer, Ellen (2006-05-14). "Iraq Begins to Rein In Paramilitary Force". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/14/AR2006051400254.html. Retrieved 2010-04-26. 
• "The Minister of Civil War". Harper's. 2006-07-20. http://www.harpers.org/the-minister-of-civil-war-399309.html. 
• "Iraq - The Death Squads". Channel 4. 2006-11-07. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2672821173995817383. 

Political offices
Preceded by Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi	Minister of Finance of Iraq May 2006–December 2010	Succeeded by incumbent
Preceded by Falah Hassan al-Naqib	Minister of Interior of Iraq April 2005–May 2006	Succeeded by Jawad Bulani
Preceded by Coalition Provisional Authority	Minister of Housing and Reconstruction of Iraq September 2003–June 2004	Succeeded by Omar Farouk