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Revision as of 20:32, 6 July 2009

An advisory body created by the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority, the Iraqi Governing Council advised the CPA and other stakeholders, such as UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, on governamce questions, debaathification, and forming the Interim Iraqi Government.[1] It was formed in July 2003, and had 25 members:

  • 13 Shia
  • 5 Sunni Arabs
  • 5 Sunni Kurds
  • 1 Sunni Turkoman
  • 1 Assyrian Christian


Name Religion/Ethnicity (exile) Affiliation
Sayyed Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum Shi'a
Ahmed Chalabi Shi'a Iraqi National Council
Iyad Alawi Shi'a Iraqi National Accord (INA)
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim Shi'a Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)
Ibrahim Jafari Shi'a Islamic Dawa Party
Mowaffak al-Rubaie Shi'a former Da’wa
Wael Abdul Latif, Shi'a a judge in Basra since 1982 who was named interim governor of the city in June 2003
Hamid Majeed Mousa Shi'a Iraqi Communist Party
Shiekh Ahmad Shyaa al-Barak " Al-Bu Sultan Tribe
Raja Habib Khuzai " a female doctor who heads a maternity hospital in the southern city of Diwaniyah.
Ezzidin Salim also known as Abdul Zahra Othman Muhammad " Dawa from Basra (assassinated May 17)
Abdul Karim al-Muhammadawi " Iraqi Party of God
Salama al-Khufaji " a female professor of dentistry at Baghdad University from Karbala
Adnan Pachachi Sunni Independent Democratic Movement
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The transition to a sovereign Iraqi Government would take another 11 months, when the Interim Iraqi Government (IIG) assumed political authority from the CPA. While the IIG would be sovereign, there still would be a major and dominant US troop presence that would not withdraw fully from the cities until 2009.

  1. Sharon Otterman (17 May 2004), IRAQ: Iraq's Governing Council, Council on Foreign Relations