Baraa Najib al-Ruba'i

Baraa Najib al-Ruba'i is an Iraqi politician and a member of the National Assembly of Iraq who was proposed as a possible Defense Minister in May 2006.

He comes from a princely family that oversees the Rabi’a tribe. His father, Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i was a prominent officer under the monarchy who was appointed chairman of the three-member Presidential Council by General Abdul Karim Qassem. A graduate of Sandhurst military college in Britain, he worked with the CIA in Amman on the 1996 coup attempt along with Iyad Allawi’s Iraqi National Accord.

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