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Place of Birth: Kadhimiya, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
About Mowaffak al-Rubaie
- Dr Mowaffak Baqer al-Rubaie (alternative transliterations Muwaffaq al-Rubaie and Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i) (Arabic: ???? ????????) is an Iraqi politician, and was Iraqi National Security Advisor in the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
- He was elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in December 2005 as a nominee of the United Iraqi Alliance.
- A Shia Muslim and neurologist by training, al-Rabai'i was born in Kadhimiya and left Iraq in the early 1980s to study in Britain.
- There he became a member of the British Royal College of Physicians who practiced internal medicine and neurology and also went into publishing.
- In London he became a spokesman for the Islamic Dawa Party. After the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq he was appointed a member of the Iraqi Governing Council.
- In April 2004 he was appointed National Security Advisor by the Coalition Provisional Authority.
- He held this post until September 2004, when he was replaced by Qassim Daoud following a disagreement with then Prime Minister Iyad Allawi over how to deal with Muqtada al-Sadr.In 2006, al-Rubaie was appointed National Security Advisor by the government of Nouri al-Maliki.
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