Chalabi returns to prominence and power, meets with Odierno

Chalabi returns to prominence and power


By Christian Berthelsen, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 13, 2007


BAGHDAD -- Ahmad Chalabi sits in the conference room of his compound in the Green Zone preparing to meet with Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the No. 2 U.S. military officer in Iraq.

Sunlight streams over expensive Persian carpets and modern Iraqi furniture. Chalabi wears a sober charcoal suit, but there's a touch of the dandy in his lime-colored polka-dot tie.

Chalabi professes not to even know what the meeting is about. The general, he says nonchalantly, requested it.

As advertised, an imposing figure sporting fatigues and a shaved head strides through the door a few minutes later. "Thank you for seeing me," Odierno says.

Ahmad Chalabi, it would appear, is back.

Three years ago when the U.S. military came calling on the onetime darling of Washington's neoconservatives, it raided 11 of his properties and left his compound in ruins. Chalabi, who helped the Bush administration make the case for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq,denounced the American occupation of Iraq. It was the denouement to an increasingly fractured relationship between Washington and Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who provided intelligence about Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction program that proved to be false.

The Pentagon, which had provided millions of dollars to Chalabi's group, the Iraqi National Congress, cut off funding and accused him of passing sensitive U.S. secrets to Iran. His prospects appeared to reach a nadir last year, after his party failed to win a single seat in Iraq's 2005 parliamentary elections and he was later excluded from the government.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chalabi13nov13,1,4705075.story?ctrack=5&cset=true

will turn into another "heckuva job, Brownie" in a couple years, mark my words.

to be dishonest. Why even deal with him?

Step outside the green zone sans your personal militia chalabi.

Chalabi Back...Wonderful...Negroponte sent to Pakistan because Condi couldn't "do the job" ...Wonderfull...

Sheesh...it's all beyond what an Activists can do when they've been Marginalized by their own Party but the RW is still being fed that RED MEAT which KEEP'S 'EM STRONG!

:puke:

Chalabi threatens to lift lid on Saddam

links | Iraq | Guardian ...

Ahmad Chalabi, the exiled financier promoted by the Pentagon as a leader of postwar Iraq, claims to have obtained 25 tonnes of intelligence documents ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,950624,00.html

Chalabi & his team were the 1st Civilians to enter Baghdad. They scooped up tons of Documents, which he still has somewhere. That is the leverage he has over the Busholini Regime.

so...I'm not getting my hopes up over this. We are "A Blip in Time."

Since Tenet is no longer in power at the CIA, Chalabi will garner more power in
Iraq. Tenet was going after Chalabi. That is one of the reasons that Cheney demanded that
Busholini fire Tenet. Chalabi must have top notch security. The Sunnis would love to kill
him because he was the main front man on purging all Baathists out of Iraqi Govt.