 In November 1992, at the "Salahuddin gathering", within the safety of the southern air exclusion zone, along with Masoud Barzani and Colonel Hassan al-Naqib, he was one of the three men to be appointed to the presidential council by the Iraqi National Congress.Mohammad al-Ulloum continued to live in London prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion.After the United States deposed Saddam Hussein in 2003, as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, al-Ulloum was appointed to the Iraq interim governing council.