Claim: Anwar Haddam was a leader of the Islamic Salvation Front, the dissolution of the FIS was by military decree and he spent most of the war years in exile in the United States of America.
Evidence: Anwar Haddam (Arabic: أنور هدام‎) was a leader of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), an Islamist party in Algeria, and was elected to parliament on a FIS ticket in 1991 - Algeria's first multiparty elections. The dissolution of the FIS by military decree after its electoral victories in 1991-92 triggered the Algerian Civil War. Haddam spent most of the war years in exile in the United States of America, acting as a main figure in the party's political leadership.