Wael Abdul Latif is an Iraqi politician from the secular Iraqi National List

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 coalition. He was the Minister of Provincial Affairs in the Iraqi Interim Government

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 created following the United States

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's 2003 invasion of Iraq

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A Shia Muslim, he trained as a lawyer in Baghdad

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 and served as a judge since the 1980s, including as head judge in Nasiriyah

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 and deputy head judge in Basra

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. He was imprisoned for a year under Saddam Hussein

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's regime.

In July 2003, he was appointed governor of Basra

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 and was a member of the Iraqi Governing Council

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 from July 2003 until June 2004. He was a member of the committee

Members of the Iraqi Constitution Drafting Committee

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 that drafted the Constitution of Iraq

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He was elected to the Council of Representatives of Iraq in the Iraqi legislative election of December 2005 as part of the Iraqi National List

Iraqi National List

The Iraqi National List is a coalition of Iraqi political parties who ran in the December 2005 Iraqi elections and got 8.0% of the vote and 25 out of 275 seats...

coalition.