Ahmad Khalaf al-Dulaimi

Ahmad Khalaf al-Dulaimi (Arabic: احمد خلف الدليمي‎, also Ahmad Khalaf Muhammad al-Dulaimi, Ahmed Khalaf Dheyabi) is an Iraqi politician and the Governor of Al Anbar province since August 2013.

The Anbar governorate election was held in June 2013, amidst on-going demonstrations in Sunni Arab majority areas. The elections in Anbar were topped by the pro-protest 'Uniters List', which allied the al-Hadba party of Usama al-Nujayfi, the speaker of the Council of Representatives of Iraq with the Iraqi Islamic Party, which had controlled al-Anbar governorate from 2005 to 2009. The previous governor, Qasim Al-Fahdawi, was a businessman who had been nominated by the Awakening parties that had won the 2009 elections.

Ahmad Khalaf al-Dulaimi has bachelor degrees in Military and Security Sciences and in Engineering, according to his Facebook page.^[1] He served 2007-09 as Director of Internal Security for Al-Anbar Governorate, and before that as an instructor at the Iraqi Military Academy. He is married and has six children.

Ahmad Khalaf al-Dulaimi, a protest organizer from the Iraqi Islamic Party, was eventually chosen as the new Governor.^[2] He was sworn in on Tuesday 20 August 2013.^[3]

After being sworn in, al-Dulaimi met with protest leaders, and vowed to defend them should they be targeted by any party.^[2]

Ahmad Khalaf al-Dulaimi was wounded in the head and chest on September 7, 2014 during an operation against anti-government forces in the town of Barwana, al-Anbar Province.^[4] He was flown to Amman, Jordan for treatment, and then to Berlin, Germany.^[5] One member of al-Dulaimi's security team and seven soldiers were killed in the attack. In December 2014 the Anbar Provincial Council moved to have the governor retired, a proposal which he has rejected.

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