Sovereignty was transferred to a Governing Council Iraqi interim government led by Iyad Allawi as Iraq's first post-Saddam prime minister ; this government was not allowed to make new laws without the approval of the CPA.

* June 1: Assuming of functions of the Iraqi Interim Government led by Prime minister Iyad Allawi ; Ghazi al-Yawer is designed head of the Iraqi state.

Former minister of trade Ali Allawi is Chalabi's sister's son as well as Iyad Allawi's cousin.

The interim president installed was Sheikh Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, and the interim prime minister was Iyad Allawi, a man who had been a CIA asset according to former U. S. intelligence officials.

** Iraq's prime minister Iyad Allawi escapes an assassination attempt when a suicide bomber in a car attacks his convoy near his home.

** Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has called the former prime minister Iyad Allawi's comments " nonsense ".

** Former prime minister Iyad Allawi says he survived an assassination attempt at the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf.

It is dominated by the Iraqi National Accord led by former exile and interim prime minister Iyad Allawi.

Under the Iraqi Interim Government of Iyad Allawi, formed in 2004, Hassani was named industry minister in the new administration.

250 Iraqis attended this meeting, and five of these Iraqis were selected by Garner ’ s administration as the core leaders of the new Iraqi government: Masood Barzani was appointed as head of the Kudistan Democratic Party, Jalal Talbani as head of the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Abdul Aziz Al Hakim was appointed as the leader of the Supreme Assembly for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi was chosen to represent the Iraqi National Congress and Iyad Allawi was appointed as the leader of the Iraqi National Accord.

He has been an active member of the Iraqi National List ( headed by Iyad Allawi ) and has fought hard for political reconciliation among Iraq's political parties as well as against the policy of de-Ba ' athification, since his resignation as Minister of Electricity.

Salah Mesbah Khalaf (), also known as Abu Iyad () ( born 1933 – January 14, 1991 ) was deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the second most senior official of Fatah after Yasser Arafat.

July, Iraqi militants offered a $ 285, 000 reward for anyone who could kill Iyad Allawi.

Following the re-introduction of capital punishment in August 2004, the Iraqi interim PM Iyad Allawi gave assurances that he would not interfere with the trial and would accept any court decisions, although some of his comments are open to mis-interpretation: " As for the execution, that is for the court to decide — so long as a decision is reached impartially and fairly.

Arafat's top aide Abu Iyad vowed to stay neutral and opposed an alliance with Saddam ; On 17 January 1991, Abu Iyad was assassinated by the Abu Nidal Organization.

Abu Iyad explains that Abu Sa ' ed confessed after he received the order to go ahead, explaining that he was unable to go through with the plot because, " He was first of all a Palestinian and his conscience wouldn't let him do it.

In his book Stateless, Salah Khalaf ( Abu Iyad ), Arafat's chief of security and a founding member of Fatah, wrote that: " Black September was not a terrorist organization, but was rather an auxiliary unit of the resistance movement, at a time when the latter was unable to fully realize its military and political potential.

Chalabi was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister in the transitional government, and INC member Ali Allawi ( the cousin of Iyad Allawi, and incidentally nephew of Chalabi ) became Minister of Finance.

Iyad Allawi was designated to lead the Iraqi interim authority.

The CPA then put Iyad Allawi in power, ultimately he was only marginally more popular than the convicted felon Chalabi.

" Furthermore, Qadi Iyad relates that Malik was asked whether people would be looking toward Allah given the narration, " And some faces shall be shining and radiant upon that day, looking at their Lord.

He was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and currently holds a seat on the National Assembly under Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National List.

In May 2004 Brahimi was supposed to play a large advisory role in the appointment of candidates, which ended up selecting as Iraq's new interim President and Prime Minister: Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer and Iyad Allawi, respectively.

The government's head of government was Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and his deputy was the influential and charismatic Barham Salih.

On June 28, 2004, the occupation was formally ended by the coalition, which transferred power to a new Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.

It was announced by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi at a press conference in July 2004 in a climate of widespread violence by terrorist groups and the Iraqi insurgency.

On September 19, 2004 the New York Times quoted Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi as saying that he had received Salem's resignation.

On September 19 the New York Times quoted Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi as saying that he had received Salem's resignation.

The period saw a disconnect between what the PLO's second in command Abu Iyad referred to as " the language of peace " and support of Palestinian terrorism.

There he encountered two Palestinian friends: Salah Khalaf (" Abu Iyad ") and Khalil al-Wazir (" Abu Jihad "), both official members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

Arafat had met Abu Iyad while attending Cairo University and Abu Jihad in Gaza.

Abu Iyad traveled with Arafat to Kuwait in late 1960 ; Abu Jihad, also working as a teacher, had already been living there since 1959.

After settling in Kuwait, Abu Iyad helped Arafat obtain a temporary job as a schoolteacher.

Arafat and a number of his forces, including two high-ranking commanders, Abu Iyad and Abu Jihad, were forced into the northern corner of Jordan.

According to Abu Iyad, two attempts were made on Arafat's life by the Israeli Mosaad and the Military Directorate in 1970.

* January 14 – Salah Khalaf ( aka Abu Iyad ), Palestinian officer ( b. 1933 )

Iyad Ahmad al-Khashishi, 16, of Nablus, died of chest wounds sustained Sept. 30 from IDF gunfire while at a demonstration on the Nablus-Ramallah road.

Iyad Usama Taher Shath, 13, of Khan Younis, killed by an IDF rubber-coated bullet to his head during a demonstration.

Initially, most of its members were dissidents within Fatah who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern Jordan who continued to fight the Jordanian Army after the PLO leadership withdrew.

As a result of the growing difficulties within INC, the United States began seeking out other opponents who could threaten the Iraqi regime, such as the Iraqi National Accord ( INA ), headed by Iyad Allawi.

The Iraqi National Accord ( Arabic: الوفاق الوطني العراقي Al-Wifaq Al-Watani Al -' Iraqi ) known inside Iraq as Wifaq is an Iraqi political party founded by Iyad Allawi and Salah Omar Al-Ali in 1991.

* http :// www. iyadallawi. net / Iyad Allawi's official website

However, then-Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi said in 2004 that Iraq would not establish ties with Israel.