Career
He worked as a law professor at Nahrain University in Baghdad. He was elected to the Council of Representatives of Iraq in December 2005 for the Iraqi Accord Front list and he became deputy head of parliament's legal committee. He stood in Diyala in the March 2010 general election but the Iraqi Accord Front failed to have any MPs elected from that province.
However, he defected to the Iraqiya list and was nominated to parliament in December 2010 as a replacement MP. The al Sabah newspaper reported at the same time that the Higher Judicial Council had asked the parliament to lift his immunity. In March 2014 he was targeted by a roadside bomb which killed two of his bodyguards. His election was initially approved by the Independent High Electoral Commission on the grounds that they had "serious crime cases" pending against him.
However, he was acquitted by the Federal Supreme Court and allowed to take his seat.
