A Shia Muslim, al-Mohommedawi led the resistance against Saddam Hussein's government in the southern marsh regions of Iraq, where he gained the title "Prince of the Marshes."
He was imprisoned for six years under the Hussein regime and currently leads the Iraqi political group Hezbollah in Amarah.
[1] After the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he organised a militia in Maysan governorate which prevented looting.
[3] In 2004 he was criticised when six unemployed demonstrators were shot outside the governor's house.
Hezbollah has clashed violently with the Islamic Virtue Party which controlled the Basra Province until 2009.