Hamid Majid Mousa

Hamid Majid Mousa (Arabic,حميد مجيد موسى) is the Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party.[1] He was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and currently holds a seat on the National Assembly under Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National List. An economist and petroleum researcher by training, Mousa left Iraq in 1978. He returned to Iraq in 1983, where he lived in the Kurdish-controlled north of the country and was involved in activities against Saddam Hussein's regime. In 1993, he became Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party.

He was a member of the committee that drafted the Constitution of Iraq and was one of two candidates elected to the Iraqi National Assembly in the January 2005 elections as part of the People's Union list.[2] He was again elected in the December 2005 elections as part of the Iraqi National List.

References

  1. ^ Ismail, Tariq, The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq Cambridge University Press (2008)
  2. ^ Galbraith, Peter W. The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End. Simon and Schuster, 2006. ISBN 0743294246 p. 246

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