 A member of the United Iraqi Alliance, he heads the Shiite political organization Badr and his armed group, the Badr Brigade.Hadi al-Ameri took refuge in Iran until the fall of Saddam Hussein.There he participated in the founding of the Badr Brigade, an armed wing of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a Shiite political party which fought the Iraqi regime during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980 - 1988.