[4] In an interview in 1995, Juburi said the President met him in 1975 and gave him cash, a car and facilitated him becoming a journalist, buying his loyalty and admiration.
[5] In the late 1980s, his young son died, and he went on television to criticise the hospital as incompetent, which resulted in him being jailed.
After he was released he moved away from politics towards business, exporting wool from Salah Al-Din province to Britain.
Instead, his critics have suggested that he fled Iraq after stealing large sums of money from Uday Hussein, his former business partner.
He is a relative of the Iraqi Ambassador to Tunisia, Hamid al-Jabouri, who defected and sought political asylum in Britain in 1993.
[8] During the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Juburi took control of the city of Mosul with the aid of Kurdish Peshmerga, and took over a former palace owned by Ali Hassan al-Majid.
[9] His party, the Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc stood in the Iraqi legislative election of January 2005 where it won one seat.
Juburi said they supported the Iraqi insurgency, although opposed suicide bombings,[10] and called for the Multinational Force in Iraq to be replaced by United Nations-led peacekeepers.
[13] Juburi was indicted in December 2005 with the theft of millions of dollars of government money intended to protect oil pipelines near Kirkuk against attack.
[17] On January 9, 2008, al-Juburi was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury under Executive Order 13438 "for providing financial, material, and technical support for acts of violence that threaten the peace and stability of Iraq," placing him on Office of Foreign Assets Control's SDN List.
[20] In 2010, he criticized Gulf governments and TV companies for broadcasting anti-Shi'ite statements from an Egyptian cleric, Muhammed al-Zoghbi.
[22] His channel Arrai TV has been used by overseas Libyans to defend the Gaddafi regime and denounce the replacement government and to keep morale up of those who have fled Libya since the revolution.