JAWAD BULANI - INTERIOR MINISTER
Jawad al-Bulani was appointed Interior Minister in the Council of Ministers of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on 8 June 2006. Bulani is a Shi'a independent member of the United Iraqi Alliance.
SHIRWAN WAILI - NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER
Shirwan al-Waili is an Iraqi politican and Minister of State for National Security in the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He is a member of the Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation.
ABDUL QADIR OBEIDI - DEFENCE MINISTER
Lt. Gen. Abdul Qadir Mohammed Jassim Obeidi al-Mifarji' is the Defence Minister of Iraq in the Council of Ministers of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Prior to his appointment as Minister on 8 June 2006, he was commander of the infantry commando units.
BARHAM SALIH (KURD) - DEPUTY PM
An official of President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan since 1998, Mr Salih became prime minister of the PUK-led regional government in January 2001. He survived an assassination attempt at his home in April 2002. He joined the Iraqi transitional government in June 2004 as deputy prime minister for security affairs.
RAFAA AL-ESAWI (SUNNI) - DEPUTY PM
HUSSAIN AL-SHAHRISTANI (SHIA) - OIL MINISTER
Dr Hussein Shahristani, a Shia nuclear scientist, was once director of research at the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission. Whilst director he was imprisoned for possessing a subversive leaflet condemning the repression of Iraqi Shias. He fled Iraq in 1991 after being imprisoned for refusing to work in Saddam Hussein's nuclear programme and worked for human rights organisations in Iran and London thereafter.
HOSHIYAR ZEBARI (KURD) - FOREIGN MINISTER
Mr Zebari was the foreign spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party for more than 10 years. He frequently represented the KDP in meetings with US State Department officials throughout the 1990s. He was born in 1953 in the Kurdish town of Aqrah, but grew up in the mainly Arab city of Mosul. He is a graduate of the University of Essex in the UK.
SAFA AL-SAFI (SHIA) - (ACTING) JUSTICE MINISTER
OTHER MINISTERS
Salih Mahdi Al-Hasnawi (Shia) - Health minister
Khudayer al-Khuzaie (Shia) - Education minister
Bayan Jabr (Shia) - Finance minister
Abed Falah al-Sudani (Shia) - Trade minister
Karim Waheed (Shia) - Electricity minister
Fawzi al-Hariri (Kurd) - Industry minister
Latif Rashid (Kurd) - Water resources minister
Bayan Dazee (Kurd) - Housing and construction minister
Ali Hussein Al-Bahadli (Shia) - Agriculture minister
Abed Theyab (Sunni) - Higher education minister
Amer Abduljabbar (Shia) - Transport minister
Abdul-Samad Rahman (Shia) - Migration minister
Adel al-Assadi (Shia) - Minister of state for civil society affairs
Safa al-Safi (Shia) - Minister of state for House of Representatives' affairs
Jassim Mohammed Jaafar (Shia) - Youth and sports minister
Qahtan Al-Jabwri (Shia) - Minister of state for tourism and archaeology affairs
Ali Baban (Sunni) - Planning and development cooperation minister
Farooq Abdulqader (Sunni) - Communications minister
Mahmoud Mohammed al-Radhi (Shia) - Labour and social affairs minister
Riyad Gharib (Shia) - Municipalities and public works minister
Narmin Othman (Kurd) - Environment minister
Maher Dali Al-Hadithi (Sunni) - Culture minister
Nawal Majeed Hameed (Sunni) - Minister of state for women's affairs
Saad Tahir Abid (Sunni) - Minister of state for provincial affairs
Raed Fahmi (Sunni) - Science and technology minister
Wijdan Mikaeil (Christian) - Human rights minister
Mohammed Mnajid (Sunni) - Minister of state for Foreign Affairs
Akram al-Hakim (Shia) - Minister of national dialogue
Mohammed Abbas Auraibi (Shia) - Minister of state
Ali Mohammed Ahmed (Kurd) - Minister of state
Hassan Rhadi Khazim (Shia) - Minister of state
Source: BBC
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