Members of the Follow-Up and Arrangement Committee

Members of the "Follow-Up and Arrangement Committee", agreed on 17 December 2002

The following 65 individuals were selected to be on the Follow-Up and Arrangement Committee (FUAC) of the Iraqi opposition during the London conference of 14-17 December 2002. It was reported on 17 December that 10 further individuals had been added to the Committee; reports from January 2003 suggest that there had been an agreement to add 10 independent figures, but that those individuals had not yet been chosen.

The political statement of the December conference can be viewed here (NB: the official English translation in section I.3 states that "Islamic shariah are a principal source" of legislation; the original Arabic version stated "al-Islam masdar al-tashri'" = Islam is the source of legislation). FUAC was originally scheduled to meet for the first time in Iraqi Kurdistan on 15 January 2003; this was then put back to 27 February 2003, when 54 of its members met in Salahuddin for 4 days. At this meeting, a a six-member leadership council was elected and a final statement was agreed. The leadership council comprises of: Ahmad Chalabi, Mas'ud Barzani, Jalal Talabani, Adnan Pachachi, Iyad Allawi and 'Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim. Pachachi, elected in absentia, declined his position on the council. Reports stated that Allawi, who also did not attend the meeting, also declined to participate. The Salahuddin meeting also established 14 committees, to correspond to the work of separate ministries.

The list of names below comes from an official statement of the December conference. However, the party and other affiliations listed below are added for this website. If any mistakes are found, please do let me know: contact details are on the index page. Please also do suggest additions.

1	Ibrahim Hammudi	M	SCIRI - political advisor to Muhammad Baqr al-Hakim
2	Dr Ahmad Chalabi	M	INC - Chair
3	Ahmad Ali Muhsin	M	SCIRI
4	Akram al-Hakim	M	SCIRI - a university lecturer
5	Albert Yelda	M	Iraqi National Coalition, INC Executive, Assyrian Patriotic Party
6	Iyad al-Samarra'i	M	Iraqi Islamic Party
7	Dr Iyad 'Allawi	M	Iraqi National Accord - Head
8	Ayham al-Samarra'i	M	Democratic Centrist Tendency
9	Dr Bayan al-A'araji	F	SCIRI
10	Bayan Jabr	M	SCIRI - Damascus representative
11	Tawfiq al-Yasiri	M	Iraqi National Coalition - Head
12	Jalal al-Talabani	M	PUK - Secretary-General
13	Junayd Manko	M
14	Jawad al-'Attar	M	Islamic Labor Organization in Iraq - spokesperson; an affiliate of SCIRI
15	Jawhar Namiq Salim	M	KDP - political bureau
16	Hatim Mukhlis	M	Iraqi National Movement - deputy Secretary-General
17	Hatim Sha'lan Abu al-Joun	M	Tribal confederations
18	Hajim al-Hasani	M	SCIRI
19	Hamid al-Bayati	M	SCIRI - London representative
20	Husayn al-Juburi	M
21	Husayn al-Sha'lan	M	Democratic Centrist Tendency - ? Iraqi Tribes - ?
22	Husayn al-Shami	M	SCIRI
23	Ridha Jawad Taqi	M	Islamic Task Organisation
24	Su'ad al-Krimawi	F	SCIRI
25	Sa'd al-Bazzaz	M	former head of Iraqi News Agency, editor-in-chief of al-Jumhuriyya - biography
26	Dr Sa'd Jawad	M	Jund al-Imam
27	Sa'd Salih Jabir	M	Free Iraq Council - Head
28	Sa'dun al-Dulaimi	M	Former General - independent - biography
29	Sinan al-Shabibi	M	Independent economist - biography
30	Sadiq al-Musawi	M	Constitutional Monarchy Movement
31	Safia al-Suhail	F	National Campaign to Free Iraq from Dictatorship - partial biography
32	Salah al-Din Baha'a al-Din	M	Kurdistan Islamic Union
33	Salah al-Shaykhly	M	Iraqi National Accord
34	San'an Ahmad Agha	M	Iraqi Turkman Front
35	Tariq al-Adhami	M
36	Adil 'Abd al-Mahdi	M	SCIRI
37	Abbas al-Bayati	M	Islamic Association of Iraqi Turkmens - Secretary-General
38	'Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim	M	SCIRI - head of military wing
39	'Abd al-Sattar al-Jumaily	M
40	'Abd al-Majid al-Khu'i	M	Al-Khoei Foundation - Secretary-General; also (from Jan03?) the Shi'a Assembly of Iraq. Killed in al-Najaf on 10 April 2003 (1).
41	'Izz al-Din Salim	M	SCIRI
42	Ali bin al-Husayn	M	Constitutional Monarchy Movement - Head
43	Ghassan al-Atiyyah	M	Democratic Centrist Tendency
44	Faruq Rida'a	M	Union of Iraqi Democrats
45	Fouad Masoum	M	PUK: former PUK prime minister
46	Qadir Aziz	M	Iraqi Turkman Front? Kurdistan Toilers' Party?
47	Karim Ahmad	M	(former?) Kurdistan Communist Party leader
48	Kanan Makiya	M	Author - biography
49	Kosret Rasoul Ali	M	PUK: former PUK prime minister
50	Goran Talabani	M	INC "Independent Democrats Bloc"; a London neuroscientist
51	Dr Muhammad Bahr al-'Ulum	M	Ahl Al-Bayt Centre (London) and Jama'at al-'Ulama'; see Da'wa notes
52	Muhammad Taqi al-Mawla	M	Shi'a Turkoman; affiliate of SCIRI
53	Muhammad al-Haydari	M	SCIRI - Head of Political Bureau
54	Muhammad 'Abd al-Jabbar	M	Islamic Cadres Movement, Kawadi al-Da'wa
55	Muhammad al-Haji Mahmud	M	Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party - Head
56	Mas'ud al-Barzani	M	KDP - President
57	Mish'an al-Juburi	M	Iraq Homeland Party - Head
58	Mudhar Shawkat	M	Iraqi National Movement
59	Mu'afak al-Rubay'i	M	London-based Shi'a doctor
60	Naji Hilmi	M
61	Dr Najim al-Din Karim	M	Washington Kurdish Institute - President
62	Hoshyar Zibari	M	KDP - Head of International Relations Bureau
63	Wafiq al-Samarra'i	M	Higher Council for National Salvation
64	Walid Muhammad Salih	M
65	Younadim Yusif Kana	M	Assyrian Democratic Movement

Sources (with modifications) -
http://209.50.252.70/p_en/news/archives/00001090.htm
http://www.krg.org/docs/articles/iraqi-opposition-followup-committee.asp
http://www.geocities.com/iraqisitesguide/docs/doc106.htm
Faleh A. Jabar, The Shi'ite Movement in Iraq (Saqi, 2003), pp. 321-22

Brief analysis:

Out of the 59 individuals whose positions are noted above:

24 are from parties or groupings that are broadly Islamist in their primary orientation (41%).
5 are from military groupings (8%).
15 are from parties or institutions whose primary goal is the autonomy or defence of a minority ethnic group (25%).
18 are from national civilian secular groupings or are secular independents (31%).

(Note that some individuals are counted in more than one category)

There are 6 individuals on the FUAC whose positions are not known; they may be drawn disproportionately from one of the above four groups. In addition, the composition of the 10 members coopted later, if this indeed happened, is not known.

An alternate analysis, in Ain al-Yaqeen, claims that the committee includes 32 or 33 Shi'is, of whom 8 are from SCIRI and another 8 close to SCIRI. It reports that 66% (43 members) of the places have gone to Arabs, 25% (16 members) to Kurds, 6% (4 members) to Turkmen and 3% (2 members) to Assyrians. An article in the International Herald Tribune clarified the Shi'a representation as 32.

A further report claims that the committee includes 2 Christians, 5 Turkmen, and 3 monarchists.

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