any ideas as to the reason? just seems odd to me considering he was a fave of the bush administration. might help smooth relations with other folks there as i had read that many iraqis weren’t too supportive of chalabi. regardless, it’s an interesting twist.
also i found this interesting from the nytimes:
Mr. Chalabi’s group has received at least $27 million in United States financing in the past four years, an Iraqi National Congress official said this week. That includes $335,000 a month as part of a classified program through the Defense Intelligence Agency, since the summer of 2002, to help gather intelligence in Iraq.
Internal reviews by the United States government have found that much of the information provided as part of the classified program before American forces invaded Iraq last year was useless, misleading or even fabricated.
i’d be up for some reimbursement from this guy and his group…
“There was no comment from U.S. authorities, but American officials here have complained privately that Chalabi - a longtime Pentagon favorite - is interfering with a U.S. investigation into allegations that Saddam Hussein’s regime skimmed millions in oil revenues during the U.N.-run oil-for-food program.” from article http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040520/D82MA0100.html
Apparently, they are just tired of his crap. We should charge him with fraud or embezzlement and let him sit in prison.
i read that quote too. someone needs to print out a program so everyone knows what factions are doing what. i mean the implication is that as much as chalabi wanted saddam out, he was reaping some benefits from that oil for money program. what a mess.
Honestly, the guy should be whacked. He fed us all sorts of false intelligence in order to encourage the war, and doesn’t even really try to deny it.
The best part is his comment calling the raid “the penultimate act of failure of the CPA in Iraq.” It was the second to last act of failure? I’m surprised he didn’t call it treason.