(Photo: AP) Hoshyar Zebari belongs to a powerful Kurdish tribe in northwest Iraq and he is the uncle of Massoud Barzani, one of the two leaders who control the Kurdish areas. The country's first Kurdish foreign minister, Zebari was a guerrilla fighter during Kurdish rebellions against Saddam Hussein. He has traveled worldwide to canvass support for what he calls a new, united and democratic Iraq. He has held the foreign minister's post in both the interim government, formed in June 2004, and in the first U.S.-picked provisional cabinet, the Governing Council.