Did Chalabi kill Saleem?

The last three days have seen the tragic murder of Izzadine Saleem a man who appeared to be admired by all sides and seemed more focused on the country as a whole rather than his position (correct me if I'm wrong). If I remember the news reports correctly Chalabi had either just passed through the checkpoint "seconds before" or was "just a few cars behind" the explosion. Terror, danger, drama.

Suddenly Chalabi is on on the outs with the CPA and has declared that their relationship is over. Either he is taking the money and running (I'd give him 72 hours without US protection) or he is going to be the "rebel", no one in the US's pocket is going to have much success in a country where 80% want us out NOW!

See this tompaine.com article for the insight
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/neocon_lets_cat_out_of_bag.php

So Iraq is all of a sudden "leaderless" (though the US seems more concerned about this than the Iraqis) and in steps the new "bad guy" the one the US doesn't want to govern!

Seems to me that Saleem's death may not have been the work of Zaqawri as the US military announced about 2 minutes after the assassination. Just a thought.


ON EDIT-this thread was going to be titled "Ahmed Chalabi throws like a GIRL!!" jsut to attract attention but I passed on it.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/our_terrorist.php

Our Terrorist
May 18, 2004

The assassination of the Iraqi Governing Clowncil president yesterday morning is only the latest sign that Iraq is unhinged, and that the Bush administration is out of repair hinges. But what's curious about the coverage of the killing is how whitewashed  it is. The dead man—Ezzedine Salim (not his real name!)—was a member of an Iran-backed, extremist Islamic fundamentalist organization called Al Dawa. He's described in press accounts now as a mild-mannered “writer and teacher."

Al Dawa was founded in the late 1950s in Iraq by Shiite mullahs and ayatollahs who hated Communism, socialism and the Baath Party, and for more than 40 years they’ve left an unbroken trails of murder, assassinations, and bombings in their wake. Under various Iraqi governments, before and after Saddam Hussein, Al Dawa carried out a campaign of terror . In the 1970s they regularly assassinated Iraqi officials and then joined hands with the Iran ’s Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. After 1979, backed by Iran, Al Dawa’s terror campaign stepped up—at a time when the United States was trying to work with Saddam’s Iraq against the threat of Iranian expansionism. (Also working with Saddam, of course, was virtually the entire rest of the world, from the USSR to Saudi Arabia.) Also in the 1980s, Al Dawa expanded its terrorism to Kuwait, bombing the U.S. and French embassies.

How is it, for an administration supposedly committed to fighting Islamic terror, that a representative of exactly that movement becomes de facto president of the nation we’re allegedly liberating? How is it that an Islamic terrorist sympathizer gets treated to reverential press coverage after his death by the same American media that constantly cheerlead the Bush administration’s Global War on Terrorism?

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I should have known nothing is as it seems.