Falah Hassan al-Naqib
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Falah Hassan al-Naqib is an Iraq
i politician and was the Minister of Interior under the Iraqi Interim Government
.
Born in 1956 in Samarra
, he is a Sunni Arab
. He was named the governor of Salah ad Din Governorate after the fall of Saddam Hussein
. An ally of Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi
, his father, General Hassan al-Naqib, defected in the 1970s and became an active opposition member in exile. He trained in the United States
as a civil engineer.
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i politician and was the Minister of Interior under the Iraqi Interim Government
Iraqi Interim Government
The Iraqi Interim Government was created by the United States and its coalition allies as a caretaker government to govern Iraq until the Iraqi Transitional Government was installed following the Iraqi National Assembly election conducted on January 30, 2005...
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Born in 1956 in Samarra
Samarra
Sāmarrā is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah ad-Din Governorate, north of Baghdad and, in 2003, had an estimated population of 348,700....
, he is a Sunni Arab
Arab
Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...
. He was named the governor of Salah ad Din Governorate after the fall of Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
. An ally of Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi
Iyad Allawi
Ayad Allawi is an Iraqi politician, and was the interim Prime Minister of Iraq prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A prominent Iraqi political activist who lived in exile for almost 30 years, the politically secular Shia Muslim became a member of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, which...
, his father, General Hassan al-Naqib, defected in the 1970s and became an active opposition member in exile. He trained in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
as a civil engineer.