Ahmad Chalabi Is on the Brink of a Comeback

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - The former Iraqi exile leader who helped found the Iraqi National Congress, Ahmad Chalabi, is seeking his country's highest office and says he has accepted an informal nomination to be prime minister.

In a phone interview yesterday with The New York Sun, Mr. Chalabi said he had said yes to the request from prominent members of the United Iraqi Alliance list, the slate of candidates that will likely control a majority of seats in the transitional national assembly to be announced in the coming days.

Among Mr. Chalabi's supporters is the leader of a resistance against Saddam Hussein in southern Iraq in 1991, Abdul Karim Al Muhammadawi, known as the "prince of the marshes." Mr. Chalabi has also garnered support from a former member of the Iraqi Governing Council, Salama al-Khufaji,who is one of the highest-ranking women on the UIA list. Mr. Chalabi also draws support from the Shiite Political Council, the organization he helped build this summer after he was excluded from the interim government headed by Prime Minister Allawi.
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Yesterday, Mr. Chalabi said he harbored no ill will towards his old nemeses in Washington and went out of his way to thank the American people, the American military, and President Bush for liberating Iraq. He even found kind words for Jordan, which has an outstanding warrant from a military court for his arrest in connection with his role in the collapse of the Petra Bank. Mr. Chalabi is suing the Jordanian government in federal district court in Washington for racketeering in connection with the bank collapse.

http://www.nysun.com/article/8934

[cthrumatrix]

1. now I see why they need to recount 300 ballot boxes.......

[Skink]

3. Allawi and Chalabi.....

Dumb and Dumber.

[Laurab]

26. Exactly what I thought. n/t

[bemildred]

2. Heck, I want to "informally nominate" myself too. nt

[William Bloode]

5. Me 3!

I always wanted to be a corrupt ruler.......one can always dream though.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

4. LMAO!

Well, Bushies, live by the crooked election, die by the crooked election.

[blm]

20. Distancing Bush from Chalabi was just an ACT so the Iraqis would trust

him as independent of the WH.

You notice he was never really arrested? All a dog and pony show.

Bush was happy with Allawi or Chalabi.

It won't last. The people will realize it was just for show soon enough.

[jmcgowanjm]

6. kick this!

Iraq deposits five billion w/ the US Federal Reserve

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=20833

[saigon68]

7. THE COMEBACK KID

Clarence Darrow said, "A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to
form a corporation."

[ooglymoogly]

18. good quote

love darrow

[saigon68]

23. Me too

Those who ignore the past and doomed to repeat it.

The "Scopes trial" comes to mind in the new amerikan Taliborne again society.

[yinkaafrica]

8. Is this an end run around the election process? Unreal.

Looks like we knocked him down just to set him up.

[Roland99]

9. But...but...but...the Bush White House was all but accusing him of spying!

wtf?

[chookie]

10. Not the WH, but the CIA

And Tenet specifically.

Tenet "resigned" within a few weeks of Chalabi being exposed as a spy for Iran.

This was the first indication that the NeoCons had triumphed post-invasion, and in spite of all of their errors. Chalabi was their boy, so no matter WHAT he does -- like pass on US secrets to Iran -- it's okay. Once again, it is clear who has the ear of His Chimperial Majesty.

Chalabi still figures prominently in their plans. Chalabi has already been rehabilitated in the media -- appears as an unquestioned and unchallenged pundit on CNN

[Mr_Spock]

11. Not only that, but it was all a planned show to distance Chalabi from US

It was obvious at the time (to me anyway) and his new "resurgence" only confirms the success of thier evil plan.

[shrike]

12. OMG. Chalabi.

The world's greatest con man. Ever.

[Bozita]

13. Judith Miller (NYT mediawhore princess) predicted this on Hardball ...

... about 12 days ago.

take a look:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1572112


And, ... nobody knows Chalabi like Judy.

[underpants]

25. Hell *I* could have predicted this and I think I did

I am sure that since you have bookmarked every single post of mine :eyes: you know what I am talking about.

When you get to take all the ballots behind closed doors and count them yourself with no oversight you can pretty much make anyone you want to the "winner". Chalabi was who they wanted in the first place and the whitewash provided by the "Voting" covers all.

[VegasWolf]

14. Ha ha, this will make bushco and PNAC's day!!! Wonder if brainless

is still so excited about the elections!!!

[livinginphotographs]

15. So I forget. Is he our friend now?

It's hard to keep up.

[plcdude]

16. there are not many

in Iraq that would be pleased with this Chalabi and all hell could break loose on this one.

[Renew Deal]

17. I'd support bombing this asshole.

Here's a guy that should not be in charge of a country.

[Zynx]

19. The New York Sun is a legitimate newspaper???

Since when?

[Renew Deal]

21. It's a right wing rag,

Some puke is spending money on this.

[Disturbed]

22. Ahmed Chalabi still has two tons of Saddam documents...

that his team scooped up in Baghdad. These docs are his aces against the Bush Junta.

[underpants]

24. The New york SUN???? RW rag recreated last spring/summer

It originally went out of business in the 50's. The name was bought (think Rev.Moon and UPI) and they started it back up again last summer as another "quotable source" for the RW noise machine.

[underpants]

27. FYI-Chalabi and the INC are CIA financed and communists

Yes W invaded a country for no reason and now is trying to establish communists in power. They really need to stop let him play with the dominoes.

http://www.iraqinews.com/party_iraqi_national_congress.shtml

Leadership
Led by Dr. Ahmad Chalabi.
Funding
Funded by the CIA. Received over $100 million in the first half of the 1990s. Was also overtly funded after the US Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, which granted the opposition $97 million for military equipment, Pentagon training and facilities (and $2 million in broadcasting funds).

[0007]

28. This has all the earmarks of the WWF

Chalabi has just changed costumes in the middle of a championship run. And now an interview with Karl Rove who is sitting ringside, who gave up on Chalabi as dead just a few short months ago.