Salam al-Zaubai is an Iraq

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i politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq

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....

 from 2006 to 2007. He was elected to the Iraqi National Assembly in December 2005

Iraqi legislative election, December 2005

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 as part of the Sunni Arab

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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...

-led 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...

 list.

He is from a well known tribe, the Zoba'a

Arab tribes in Iraq

Many Iraqis identify more or less strongly with a tribe . Thirty of the 150 or so identifiable tribes in Iraq are the most influential. Tribes are grouped into federations...

, and heads the Agriculture Engineers Union.

On March 23, 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

Green Zone

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 for surgery. His adviser was reportedly killed in the attack, along with a number of his guards. 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

Islamic State of Iraq

The Islamic State of Iraq , is an umbrella organization of a number Iraqi insurgency groups established on October 15 2006.The group is composed of and supported by a variety of insurgency groups, including its predecessor, the Mujahideen Shura Council, Al-Qaeda, Jeish al-Fatiheen, Jund al-Sahaba,...

 called him a stooge “to the crusader occupiers.” Hours after the assassination attempt the group claimed responsibility for the bombing. On March 28, he was moved to Amman

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, Jordan

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for treatment at the King Hussein Medical Center, and he was released from the hospital on April 3.