Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum
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Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum (born 1954) served as the Iraq
i Minister of Oil from May 2005 until December 2005, while he was a member of the Islamic Virtue Party
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/05/12/international/i003845D31.DTL&type=printable. He had also previously served in this position as part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003 until June 2004. A Shia Muslim, al-Ulloum is the son of Shia cleric Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum
. Ulloum is an Iraqi from Holy City of Najaf.
Ulloum was educated in the United States
, earning a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering
from the New Mexico Tech; he later worked for the Kuwaiti oil ministry, for the Petroleum Recovery Research Center in New Mexico, and as an independent consultant in London
(from 1992 to 2003).
Ulloum ran for parliament by forming his own, Future Iraq Grouping, independent political group but failed to receive a single seat in 2005 December's election.
Ulloum survived an assassination attempt in Iraq on 2003-10-12, and another on 2005-09-02.
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i Minister of Oil from May 2005 until December 2005, while he was a member of the Islamic Virtue Party
Islamic Virtue Party
Islamic Virtue Party is an Iraqi political party. It follows ayatollah Muhammad Ya`qubi a student of Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr and thus represent a branch of the Sadrist Movement, however the party is not affiliated with Muqtada al-Sadr and is in fact a rival to his branch of the Sadrists...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/05/12/international/i003845D31.DTL&type=printable. He had also previously served in this position as part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003 until June 2004. A Shia Muslim, al-Ulloum is the son of Shia cleric Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum
Ayatollah Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum is a prominent Twelver Shi'a Islamic leader and politician in Iraq.Father of Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum, Oil Minister of Iraq from September 2003 to June 2004, and again during 2005....
. Ulloum is an Iraqi from Holy City of Najaf.
Ulloum was educated in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, earning a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas. Subsurface activities are deemed to fall within the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, which are the activities of...
from the New Mexico Tech; he later worked for the Kuwaiti oil ministry, for the Petroleum Recovery Research Center in New Mexico, and as an independent consultant in London
London
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(from 1992 to 2003).
Ulloum ran for parliament by forming his own, Future Iraq Grouping, independent political group but failed to receive a single seat in 2005 December's election.
Ulloum survived an assassination attempt in Iraq on 2003-10-12, and another on 2005-09-02.