Abdel Falah al-Sudani

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Dr Abdel Falah Hassan Hamadi al-Sudani is the Trade Minister of Iraq in the government of Nouri al-Maliki. He was appointed in May 2006 and previously served as Education Minister in the Iraqi Transitional Government. He was born in Basra in 1947 and went into exile in Britain in the late 1970s. In 1981 received a doctorate in Biochemistry from the University of Wales. He is a member of the Dawa Party.

In June 2006 Australian troops mistakenly shot dead one of his bodyguards, provoking a diplomatic crisis. [1]

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