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Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail
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Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail is an [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Shi'aa Muslim politician who currently serves as an Ambassador of [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. She was a former [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] who was [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] in December 2005 for the secular [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].[/ltr]


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Safia was born in 1965 to a Sunni Lebanese mother.^{[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]} Her father, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], was himself also the leader of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] tribe and was a Shi'aa Muslim. He fled Iraq with his family to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] after the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] coup of [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] in 1968. Safia later lived in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].^{[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]}
Sheikh al-Tamimi was assassinated in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] in 1994, reportedly after planning a coup against Saddam Hussein which was foiled when the United States allegedly tipped off Hussein.^{[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]} Safia took over her father's opposition role, arming opposition Iraqi groups, editing the opposition newspaper Al Manar Al Arabi and becoming the advocacy director for the International Alliance for Justice, a Paris-based human rights organisation.^{[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]}
In December 2002 she met Prime Minister [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] to report the human rights abuses in Iraq under [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. The following month she wrote an article criticising the United Nations for investigating [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] but not investigating "crimes against the Iraqi people". She called for the establishment of a UN Commission to investigate human rights abuses and for Saddam Hussein to be indicted for [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].^{[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]}
She was also appointed in December 2003 as a member of the anti-Saddam Hussein opposition in exile "[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]" as a member of the "National Campaign to Free Iraq from Dictatorship".

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al-Suhail returned to Iraq following the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] in March 2003 by the United States and allied forces.
In June 2004, her Kurdish husband, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] which happens to also have a dual nationality being French, was appointed Minister of Human Rights in the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] of [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].^{[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]} The following month, al-Suhail was appointed as Iraqi Ambassador to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].,^{[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]} this was denied later on by Al-Suhail for accusations to the Foreign Minister of Iraq at the time Hoshyar Zebari that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs employs large numbers of Baathists.
In February 2005 she appeared next to Laura Bush for President [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]'s [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] as leader of the "Iraqi Women's Political Council".^{[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]} She then put herself forward as a candidate for the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].^{[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]}
During negotiations over the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] she called for Islam to be made "a main source" for legislation and not "the main source". She complained that the gains in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] since 1959 had been lost. This was considered one of the first statements made by an Iraqi official revealing the deteriorating women's rights status in post invasion Iraq in comparison to the Baathist Regime.^{[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]}
In November 2005 she was reported to have started a list - the "Iraqi Pledge Coalition" - with other Iraqi Women to campaign in the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] to amend Article 39 of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] which deals with personal status law.^{[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]} However, following the elections she was nominated a [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] for the secular [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] of Interim Prime Minister [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].
In September 2007 she was reported to have left the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] for the same reason she refused her ambassadorship to Egypt, grouping in the Council of Representatives, complaining that Allawi was highhanded and had many former Baathists amongst his ranks.^{[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]}
She is particularly visible in Council of Representatives (parliament) proceedings as she is the only member who doesn't speak with an Iraqi accent. Instead she speaks with a Lebanese accent.

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