1960), prime minister of Kurdistan (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan government, 2001-04) and deputy prime minister for national security (2004-05), planning minister (2005-06), and deputy prime minister (2006- ) of Iraq. Salihaj, Adem (b. ...... 4, 1886, Greystone estate, Yonkers, N.Y.), U.S. politician. A leader of the Barnburner or Free-Soil faction of the Democrats, he served in 1846 in the New York Assembly and was a member of the state constitutional conventions of 1846 ...