page_title: Mowaffak al-Rubaie
hierarchical_section_title: Mowaffak al-Rubaie
caption_attribution_description: Mowaffak al-Rubaie Suid, Iraqi National Security AdvisorIraqi National Security Advisor Mowaffak al-Rubaie Suid speaks with a reporter following the Al Anbar security conference at Camp Blue Diamond, Iraq, April 9, 2007. Multi-National Forces - West hosted the conference.
context_page_description: Dr Mowaffak Baqer al-Rubaie is an Iraqi politician, and was Iraqi National Security Advisor in the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He was elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in December 2005 as a nominee of the United Iraqi Alliance.
  A Shia Muslim and neurologist by training, al-Rabai'i was born in Kadhimiya and left Iraq in the early 1980s to study in Britain. There he became a member of the British Royal College of Physicians who practiced internal medicine and neurology and also went into publishing. In London he became a spokesman for the Islamic Dawa Party.
  After the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq he was appointed a member of the Iraqi Governing Council. In April 2004 he was appointed National Security Advisor by the Coalition Provisional Authority. He held this post until September 2004, when he was replaced by Qassim Daoud following a disagreement with then Prime Minister Iyad Allawi over how to deal with Muqtada al-Sadr.
  In 2006, al-Rubaie was appointed National Security Advisor by the government of Nouri al-Maliki. He claims to have pulled the trigger during the Execution of Saddam Hussein on 30 December 2006.
context_section_description: Dr Mowaffak Baqer al-Rubaie (alternative transliterations Muwaffaq al-Rubaie and Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i) (Arabic: موفق الربيعي‎)  is an Iraqi politician, and was Iraqi National Security Advisor in the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He was elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in December 2005 as a nominee of the United Iraqi Alliance. 
  A Shia Muslim and neurologist by training, al-Rabai'i was born in Kadhimiya and left Iraq in the early 1980s to study in Britain. There he became a  member of the British Royal College of Physicians who practiced internal medicine and neurology and also went into publishing. In London he became a spokesman for the Islamic Dawa Party.
  After the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq he was appointed a member of the Iraqi Governing Council. In April 2004 he was appointed National Security Advisor by the Coalition Provisional Authority. He held this post until September 2004, when he was replaced by Qassim Daoud following a disagreement with then Prime Minister Iyad Allawi over how to deal with Muqtada al-Sadr.
  In 2006, al-Rubaie was appointed National Security Advisor by the government of Nouri al-Maliki. He claims to have pulled the trigger during the Execution of Saddam Hussein on 30 December 2006.
caption: Mowaffak Baqer al-Rubaie, April 2007
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