The Iraqi National Dialogue Council is a Sunni Islamist political party initially established as an umbrella organization of approximately ten smaller Sunni parties to take part in the 2005 Iraqi Constitution drafting process. The party was founded by Saleh al-Mutlaq

Saleh al-Mutlaq

Saleh Muhammed al-Mutlaq is an Iraqi politician who is the head of Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, the fifth largest political list in Iraq's parliament. Since 21 December 2010, he has been one of the three deputy prime ministers of Iraq....

 and Khalaf al-Ulayyan

Khalaf al-Ulayyan

Sheikh Khalaf al-Ulayyan is an Iraqi politician and the leader of the Sunni Islamist-led Iraqi National Dialogue Council. The council joined the Iraqi Accord Front to contest the December 2005 general election...

. During the Iraqi Constitution drafting negotiations in 2005, the party was advised by Sadoun al-Zubaydi

Sadoun al-Zubaydi

‎Sadoun al-Zubaydi was a British-educated English literature professor at the University of Baghdad, best known for his role as the official English language translator to former President Saddam Hussein of Iraq...

, an Iraqi foreign policy expert and former personal translator to 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...

. In the lead-up to the December 2005 elections

Iraqi legislative election, December 2005

Following the ratification of the Constitution of Iraq on 15 October 2005, a general election was held on 15 December to elect a permanent 275-member Iraqi Council of Representatives....

, Mutlaq left the National Dialogue Council and formed his own party and gave it a similar name: the Iraqi National Dialogue Front. 'Ulayan now leads the party, which is the smallest of three parties that compose the Iraqi Accord Front

Iraqi Accord Front

The Iraqi Accord Front or Iraqi Accordance Front also known as Tawafuq is an Iraqi Sunni-Islamist political coalition created on October 26, 2005 by the Iraqi Islamic Party to contest the December 2005 general election...

 (Tawafuq) coalition. The parties which compose the organisation originate from Iraq's wider Arab populated region.

A member of the INDC, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani

Mahmoud al-Mashhadani

Dr. Mahmoud Dawud al-Mashhadani is an Iraqi politician and a former Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives. He was elected to the Council of Representatives as part of the Sunni Arab-led Iraqi Accord Front list....

, was the speaker of the Council of Representatives from May 2006 until June 2007.

On, April 12, 2007, Mohammed Awad

Mohammed Awad

Mohammed Awad was a political party member of the Iraqi National Dialogue Council that represented them in the National Assembly of Iraq.On April 12, 2007, he was killed in the Green Zone at the convention centre canteen of the parliament building in Baghdad, Iraq, in the 2007 Iraqi Parliament...

 a member of the Iraqi National Dialogue Council was killed in the Green Zone

Green Zone

The Green Zone is the most common name for the International Zone of Baghdad. It is a area of central Baghdad, Iraq, that was the governmental center of the Coalition Provisional Authority and remains the center of the international presence in the city...

at the convention centre canteen of the parliament building in Baghdad. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1645020.ece