Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi

Baqir Jabr Al-Zubeidi (Template:Langx; born 1946), also known as Bayan Jabr Solagh (Template:Langx), is an Iraqi politician and former commander of the Badr Brigades who served as the Finance Minister of Iraq in the government of Nouri al-Maliki. He served as Minister of Interior, in charge of the police, in the Iraqi Transitional Government and was Minister of Housing and Reconstruction of the Iraqi Governing Council. He is also a senior member of the Shi'a United Iraqi Alliance as well as a leader in the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).

Born in 1946 to a Shia family in the Maysan Governorate, Jabr became a Shi'a activist while studying engineering at Baghdad University in the 1970s. He escaped to Iran amid former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's crackdown on Shi'a political groups and joined the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). He later headed SCIRI's office in Syria. According to the Independent newspaper Jabr was a former commander of SCIRI's militia, the Badr Brigades.

On 3 January 2006, his sister was reported kidnapped from Baghdad by Iraqi insurgents. Parts of central Baghdad were locked down as police searched for the woman. She was released two weeks later after a ransom was paid by him.

External links

• PBS FRONTLINE: Gangs of Iraq 17 April 2007
• Interview with Bayan Jabr, PBS FRONTLINE: Gangs of Iraq 21 November 2006

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