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Nouri Kamel al-Maliki ( ''Nūrī Kāmil al-Mālikī''; born c. 1950 ), also known as '''Jawad al-Maliki''', is an Iraqi Shiite politician and the deputy leader of the Islamic Dawa Party . In April 22, 2006 he was named Prime Minister-designate by President Jalal Talabani to succeed the Transitional Government of fellow Dawa leader Ibrahim Al-Jaafari . If confirmed by the National Assembly , his constitutional Mandate will last until 2010. EARLY LIFE Nouri Kamel al-Maliki was born in Al Hindiyah (Hindiya), a southern Iraqi town lying between Karbala and Al Hillah . {Link without Title} {Link without Title} {Link without Title} He would join the Islamic Dawa Party while studying at university and took the name "Jawad" while in exile from Iraq. EXILE In 1980, the Saddam Hussein government sentenced al-Maliki to death for his activism in the Dawa party. Thereafter, he lived in exile in Iran , and later Syria ; where he headed the party's Jihad Office, a branch responsible for directing activists and guerrillas fighting Saddam Hussein's regime from outside of Iraq . He was elected chairman of the Joint Action Committee, a Damascus -based opposition coalition that led to the founding of the Iraqi National Congress , a U.S. -backed body of Opposition to the Saddam Hussein regime which the Dawa Party participated in between 1992 and 1995. POST-SADDAM De-Baathification Returning home after Saddam's fall, he became the deputy leader of the De-Baathification Commission of the Iraqi Interim Government , formed to purge former Baath Party officials from the military and government. Many Sunni Arabs deeply resented the commission, viewing it as part of a Shi'a conspiracy to take power in Iraq, even though the Baath Party officials affected came from both the Shi'a and Sunni communities. Iraqi Constitution Al-Maliki was elected to the transitional National Assembly in January 2005. He was considered a tough negotiator in drawn-out deliberations over the new constitution, and was the senior Shi'ite member of the committee that drafted the new Constitution that was passed in October 2005 over Sunni Arab objections. He resisted U.S. efforts to put more Sunnis on the drafting committee, as well as Sunni efforts to water down provisions giving wide autonomy to Shiite and Kurdish regions in the north and south. Other political causes He is well-known in Iraq for championing Animal Rights and is president of the Iraqi branch of the Animal Salvation Society . PRIME MINISTER NOMINATION Al-Maliki became the United Iraqi Alliance 's candidate for the Prime Minister of Iraq's first full-term government in April 2006, after Ibrahim al-Jaafari was removed as the candidate due to opposition from Sunni and Kurdish factions. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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