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LifestreamBBC News: Analysis: Rise and fall of Chalabi
Just over a year ago, when US-led forces overthrew the Saddam Hussein government, Ahmed Chalabi was America’s best-known Iraqi ally.
He was, to be sure, controversial. Many in the State Department and the CIA were wary of him - unconvinced he always told the truth or had a genuine support base in Iraq.
Ahmed Chalabi himself scoffs at all these accusations. He insists the Americans have turned against him because he is highly critical of their plans for the transfer of power to an interim Iraqi government at the end of June.
Another day, another Manuel Noriega. The recipe is simple. Take a rotten guy with a dirty past and put him in control. Then when he is finally doing something right you stab him in the back. I don’t know where to begin .. this simply stinks from the bottom up.
