| Salam al-Zaubai |
Salam al-Zaubai (Arabic: سلام الزوبعي; 1958/1959 – 19 December 2022)[1] was an Iraqi politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq from 20 May 2006 to 1 August 2007 as well as the acting Defence Minister from 20 May 2006 to 8 June 2006.[2] He was elected to the Iraqi National Assembly in December 2005 as part of the Sunni Arab-led Iraqi Accord Front list.
He was from a well known tribe, the Zoba'a, and headed the Agriculture Engineers Union.[3]
On 23 March 2007, Zaubai was wounded in an attack involving a suicide bombing and car bombing at a mosque near his home in Baghdad, and he was taken to a U.S. military hospital in the Green Zone for surgery.[4] His adviser was reportedly killed in the attack, along with a number of his guards.[5] [6] A brother and cousin of Zaubai, as well as the mosque's imam, were also said to have been killed.[7] The bomber attacked al-Zubaie a day after an al-Qaida umbrella group, the Islamic State of Iraq called him a stooge “to the crusader occupiers.” Hours after the assassination attempt the group claimed responsibility for the bombing.[8] On 28 March, he was moved to Amman, Jordan for treatment at the King Hussein Medical Center, and he was released from the hospital on 3 April.[9]