Sami al-Askari

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Sami al-Askari (also transliterated Askeri) is an Iraqi politician and a member of the Iraqi National Assembly. He is an independent politician, thought to be close to the Islamic Dawa Party.

He was a member of the committee that drafted the Constitution of Iraq.

During the regime of Saddam Hussein he was active in exile opposition politics, joining the 1992 Executive Council of the Iraqi National Congress as a representative of the Islamic Dawa Party. [1]