Nov 3, 2015, 3:05 PM
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Renowned Iraqi politician, Ahmad Chalabi, dies

Nov 3, 2015, 3:05 PM
News ID: 81823805
Renowned Iraqi politician, Ahmad Chalabi, dies

Baghdad, Nov 3, IRNA – Renowned Iraqi politician and parliamentarian Ahmad Chalabi died on Tuesday.

According to AlSumaria News Website, he was 70 years old.

The veteran Iraqi politician, who frequented the country’s political scene in senior posts in the 2000s, died of a heart attack in the capital, Baghdad.

Haitham al-Jabouri, the secretary of the Iraqi parliament’s financial panel, said Chalabi had been found dead in his bed in his Baghdad home on Tuesday.

Chalabi was a vocal opponent of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Chalabi spent decades in the US and the United Kingdom in exile. He returned to his country after Saddam’s downfall, which came about with the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Chalabi served as the interim oil minister and deputy prime minister in 2005 and 2006.

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