Reply #1: yeah, Chalabi the peacemaker did a great job with Sadr [View All]

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"We are sorry to hear all these difficulties, all these rumors, all this investigation going on. Chalabi still in my view will have a role to play," Zebari said at the United Nations (news - web sites) in New York. "He has fought very hard to have the regime of Saddam Hussein toppled and we are following this news and development with great distress."


Chalabi came to Najaf to try to help negotiate an end to two months of fighting between American soldiers and Shiite militiamen of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.


Those talks have not borne fruit yet, and clashes between the Americans and militiamen persist.


Chalabi's supporters say he aims to unite Shiites so they can be well prepared for the election, in which they expect to transform their demographic dominance into political power.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=9&u=/ap/20040604/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_reinventing_chalabi