Nouri al-Badran was the Minister of Interior in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraqi Governing Council in September 2003. A secular Shiite Muslim, Badran served in the government 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...

 as ambassador to the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 until fleeing Iraq upon its 1990 invasion of Kuwait

Kuwait

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. In exile, he joined the Iraqi National Accord

Iraqi National Accord

The Iraqi National Accord known inside Iraq as Wifaq is an Iraqi political party founded by Iyad Allawi and Salah Omar Al-Ali in 1991. Al-Ali subsequently left the party after he realised the extent of Allawi's links to foreign intelligence agencies, mainly the C.I.A. and MI6.It was founded at the...

opposition group. Badran resigned his post in April 2004 amid a corruption scandal.