Haidar al-Abbadi

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Haider al-Abbadi (Arabic: حيدر العبّادي) is an Iraqi politician and spokesman for the Islamic Call Party.

He was appointed Minister of Communications in the Iraqi Governing Council on 2003-09-01. A Shia Muslim and electrical engineer by training, al-Abbadi is half-Lebanese and lived in exile during the time of Saddam Husein in London.

He was alleged to have profitted from a deal with Orascom, an Egyptian company listed on the London Stock Exchange that was awarded a mobile phone network contract in 2003.

[edit] References

• BBC News (2003). Iraq's post-war cabinet. Retrieved on 2006-02-24.
• Council on Foreign Relations (2006). The New face of Iraq's government. Retrieved on 2006-06-06.

Preceded by Coalition Provisional Authority

Minister of communications September 2003–June 2004

Succeeded by Mohammed Ali Hakim