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.

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DPM Salam al-Zaubai (second from right)

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He was from a well known tribe, the Zoba'a, and headed the Agriculture Engineers Union.^[3]

On 23 March 2007, al-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 al-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]

Al-Zaubai died in India on 19 December 2022, after traveling there for medical treatment.^[10]