Ahmed Chalabi

@Former Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, Family and Family

Ahmed Chalabi was a controversial Iraqi politician who served as deputy prime minister of Iraq for a brief period

Oct 30, 1944

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: October 30, 1944
  • Died on: November 3, 2015
  • Nationality: Iraqi
  • Famous: Former Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, University Of Chicago, Leaders, Political Leaders
  • Spouses: Leila Osseiran (m. 1971–2015)
  • Known as: Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi
  • Childrens: Hadi Chalabi, Hashim Chalabi, Mariam Chalabi, Tamara Chalabi

Ahmed Chalabi born at

Kadhimiya, Iraq

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Birth Place

In 1971, Chalabi married Leila Osseiran, daughter of Lebanese politician Adil Osseiran. The couple have four children.

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Personal Life

In 2008, he had a narrow escape when his motorcade was attacked in the Tony Mansour neighbourhood of Bhagdad. At least 5 people from Chalabi’s group were killed.

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Personal Life

Ahmed Chalabi died on 3 November 2015, apparently after a heart attack at his home in Kadhimiya, Baghdad.

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Personal Life

Ahmed Chalabi was born on 30 October 1944 in Baghdad. He hails from one of the richest, prominent and elite families Shia families of Baghdad. In 1956, Chalabi and his family left Iraq due to deteriorating political situation. He spent most time in the United States of America and United Kingdom.

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Childhood & Early Life

Ever since the time they fled, Chalabli was perennially obsessed with overthrowing the regime in Bhagdad which was led by Sadam Hussien.

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Childhood & Early Life

He received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1960s and earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, in 1969.

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Childhood & Early Life

Soon after Chalabi obtained his PhD, he took up a position in the Mathematics Department at the American University of Beirut.

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Career

Chalabi founded the Petra Bank in Jordan in 1977. At that time, an order was passed for all banks to deposit 35% of their reserves with the Central Bank. All banks complied with this barring Petra Bank.

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Career

After a thorough investigation, Petra Bank was accused of false accounting which led Chalabi to flee from the country before the authorities could take action. He was convicted in absentia for a bank fraud by a Jordanian military tribunal. He was slapped with a charge of 22 years of prison if he ever attempted to enter Jordan again.

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Career

The controversy surrounding Chalabi had just started growing when he was made the head of the Iraqi National Congress, an umbrella position group that received a lot of support and money from the American Government as the group attempted to overthrow the Saddam rule.

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Chalabi fled the country again when lot of his supporters were killed while organizing a resistance movement among Kurds in Northern Iraq in mid 1990s.

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Chalabi also reportedly misled a team of reporters from ABC News and British publications by arranging interviews with 'Saddam's Mistress,' Parisoula Lampsos, who peddled countless lies about a meeting between Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.

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