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Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail is an Iraqi politician and a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq who was elected in December 2005 for the secular Iraqi National List. == Background == Safia was born in 1965 to a Lebanese mother.〔 Her father, Sheikh Taleb al-Souhail al-Tamimi, was himself also the leader of the Banu Tamim tribe. He fled Iraq with his family to Lebanon after the Baath Party coup of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr in 1968. Safia later lived in Amman, Washington and Paris.〔(Iraqi activist fights for democracy and women's rights ), ''Agence France Press'' via ''ClariNet'', 2003-11-20, accessed on 2007-09-21〕 Sheikh al-Tamimi was assassinated in Beirut in 1994, reportedly after planning a coup against Saddam Hussein which was foiled when the United States allegedly tipped off Hussein.〔(US Secretly Helped Saddam ), ''Al-Bawaba'' via ''TruthSeeker'', 2003-12-20, accessed on 2007-09-21〕 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.〔 In December 2002 she met Prime Minister Tony Blair to report the human rights abuses in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The following month she wrote an article criticising the United Nations for investigating weapons of mass destruction 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 genocide and crimes against humanity.〔() Saddam Hussein’s War Against Iraq, ''Foundation for the Defense of Democracy'', 2003-01-01, accessed on 2007-09-21〕 She was also appointed in December 2003 as a member of the anti-Saddam Hussein opposition in exile "Follow-Up and Arrangement Committee" as a member of the "National Campaign to Free Iraq from Dictatorship". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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