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	Ahmed Chalabi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chalabi is also part of a three-man executive council for the umbrella Iraqi opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), created in 1992 for the purpose of fomenting the overthrow of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
		Chalabi is said to have had political contacts within the Project for the New American Century, most notably with Paul Wolfowitz, a student of nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter and Richard Perle who was introduced to Chalabi by Wohlstetter in 1985.
		Chalabi is the scion of a prominent Shi'a family, one of the wealthy power elite of Baghdad, where he was born.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahmad_Chalabi (1901 words)

	Agence Global - Article
		Ahmad Chalabi’s response was to threaten to expose the Jordanian Royal Family by pointing out their connections to Saddam Hussein.
		Mohamed Chalabi, son of Ahmad Chalabi’s oldest brother Rushdi (a cabinet minister before the revolution that toppled the British-backed monarchy in 1958), was manager of the Petra International Bank from 1984 until 1990.
		Ahmad Chalabi, sensing danger, publicly attacked Ambassador Brahimi’s credentials, and then, on the CNN television program, Late Edition, on Sunday, May 9, announced to journalist Wolf Blitzer that he had no intention of seeking electoral office, one assumes, to remove any overt impediments to his being appointed.
	www.agenceglobal.com /Article.asp?Id=128 (1290 words)

	U.S. Aids Raid on Home of Chalabi (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In his news conference, Chalabi said an urgent council meeting had been called for Friday to address the board's relationship with the United States in light of the raid and the assassination this week of the council president as he waited to enter the compound of the U.S. occupation authority.
		Chalabi, a wealthy businessman who returned to Iraq after decades of exile in Britain, won favor among Pentagon officials before the war as a prolific source of information on Iraq's weapons programs.
		Chalabi's organization received $33 million from the United States between March 2000 and September 2003, which made it the leading exile opposition organization to Hussein.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A43761-2004May20.html (866 words)

	Max Singer on Iraq & Ahmad Chalabi on National Review Online
		Chalabi is from one of the old powerful and wealthy Baghdadi families which were forced into exile when the Baath Party seized power in 1958.
		Chalabi is a modern man of the West, who founded a successful software company in London and who understands democracy deep in his bones.
		Chalabi's admirers today also include leading academic experts on the Middle East who have known him well for many years, such as Fouad Ajami, a Lebanese Arab who is the author of the much-admired book The Dream Palace of the Arabs, and Bernard Lewis, probably the premier scholar of Islam in the world.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-singer062002.asp (1236 words)

	War and Piece:
		Ahmad Chalabi, now the subject of Iraqi arrest warrants on alleged charges of counterfeiting, spends an awful lot of time in Iran.
		Ahmad Chalabi, who fell out with Washington over accusations he provided false information on weapons of mass destruction, said he would come home to fight the charges brought by the U.S.-appointed judge which he said were politically motivated.
		Chalabi was initiated by a complaint by the central bank, and that the other case followed a suit lodged by an individual who was not identified.
	www.warandpiece.com /blogdirs/001018.html (726 words)

	ESR \| May 24, 2004 \| Ahmad Chalabi, spy or scapegoat?
		Ahmad Chalabi is now being tagged by his detractors as a con-artist who duped American officials and worse yet, betrayed the American people, while earning a tidy sum in the process.
		Chalabi, once a golden-boy of the Pentagon, was a long-time Iraqi exile leader that vigorously promoted the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein's clutches, and is now a member of the Iraqi Governing Council in Baghdad.
		Chalabi's organization, the Iraqi National Congress, was receiving approximately $340,000 a month from the US -- in excess of thirty million dollars over the course of the past five years -- for providing intelligence on Iraq.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0504/0504chalabi.htm (771 words)

	CBS News \| Polygraph Tests In Chalabi Probe \| June 3, 2004 09:59:06
		Chalabi has denied passing any classified information to Iran, and his supporters assert that the CIA is trying to destroy the former exile.
		Chalabi was once held in high enough esteem to sit behind first lady Laura Bush during the state of the union address.
		Chalabi is still active and visible on the scene in Iraq where he is a member of the Iraqi Governing Council.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/05/20/iraq/main618637.shtml (586 words)

	Ahmad and Me - Defending Chalabi. By Christopher Hitchens
		Chalabi has never made any secret of his closeness to Tehran, and he operated a headquarters there, with the full encouragement of the U.S. government, during the run-up to the intervention.
		Chalabi says in his own defense that it's necessary to keep good relations with the Sistani bloc and that the ayatollah has been very helpful: most particularly in his fatwa against private revenge by those Shiites who lost relatives, or limbs, to the hateful former regime.
		Chalabi had been saying this for six years by the time I met him in 1998: Those who now say that the whole mess is his fault are panicking and scapegoating, as well as attributing superhuman powers to one individual.
	www.slate.com /id/2101345 (2113 words)

	Ahmed Chalabi - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ahmed Chalabi (also spelled "Ahmad") is part of a three-man leadership council for the Iraqi opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), which was created at the behest of the U.S. government for the purpose of fomenting the overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
		Of course, the fact that Chalabi is now scarcely mentioned as a possible political force in Iraq is barely acknowledged by the hawks who still insist, albeit with less conviction, that things are going their way and that there is no reason to panic.
		Chalabi even participated in a secret Defense Policy Board meeting just a few days after the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon in which the main topic of discussion, according to the 'Wall Street Journal', was how 9/11 could be used as a pretext for attacking Iraq.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Ahmad_Chalabi (1529 words)

	United Press International - International(p) - Commentary: Chalabi's road to victory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ahmad Chalabi, the Pentagon's heartthrob and the State Department's and CIA's heartbreak, has taken the lead in a yearlong political marathon.
		Potentially embarrassing for prominent U.S. citizens, Chalabi's aides hint his treasure trove of Mukhabarat documents includes names of American "agents of influence" on Saddam's payroll, as well as a number of Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV news reporters who were working for Iraqi intelligence.
		If Chalabi's fast track to power is not derailed and he becomes prime minister in July, the president won't be able to fire him unless his two deputies agree.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20040329-094918-2616r (1249 words)

	TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 21. Tinker, Banker, NeoCon, Spy. Robert Dreyfuss. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chalabi would hand over Iraq's oil to U.S. multinationals, and his allies in conservative think tanks are already drawing up the blueprints.
		Born in 1945, Chalabi is the scion of a wealthy, oligarchic Shi'a family with close ties to the Hashemite monarchy that was installed in Iraq after World War I by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell and the British imperial authorities.
		Chalabi's grandfather served in nine various Iraqi cabinet positions, his father was a cabinet officer and president of the figurehead Iraqi senate, and his mother ran political salons that catered to Iraq's elite.
	www.prospect.org /print/V13/21/dreyfuss-r.html (3165 words)

	AlterNet: How Far the Mighty Have Fallen
		The fall of Ahmad Chalabi, the darling of the right, from leader of a free Iraq to embarrassing liability is another fl eye for the Pentagon.
		The raids on the residence and offices of Ahmad Chalabi mark the end of warm relations between the former exile and the Bush administration.
		Ahmad Chalabi responded to being jilted by his American protectors with agitated outrage, biting the hand that has fed him so long for so well.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=18757 (840 words)

	Ahmad Chalabi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		That is where Chalabi built and lost a banking empire in the 1980s, before he was forced to flee and convicted in absentia of fraud and embezzlement.
		But Chalabi’s extremely close ties to the inner circles of the Jordanian government—at a time when Jordan was becoming increasingly dependent on the Iraqi dictator’s good will—surely heightened those risks.
		Since Chalabi himself was increasingly active in efforts to thwart economic or other assist-ance to the Iraqi regime by that time, he had reason to be worried.
	www.informationwar.org /articlesofinterest/iraq/ahmad_chalabi_may2003.htm (1662 words)

	Ahmad Chalabi and His Iranian Connection - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chalabi, an Iraqi Shiite, was and remains in constant contact with Tehran.
		Chalabi, like any anti-Hussein leader, clearly would have had a vested interest in providing the United States with information that would lead it to invade Iraq and open the door for a new regime -- particularly a regime in which Shia would play a leading role.
		Chalabi's relationship with Iran proved useful to the United States in the run-up to the war.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/iraq/justify/2004/0218chalabiconnection.htm (1960 words)

	CNN.com - Chalabi blames Baathists for raid - May 20, 2004
		Chalabi, who was previously a close adviser to the Pentagon, said the CPA is dissatisfied with his demands for Iraq's provisional government to be given full control of the Iraqi Army after the June 30 handover and for control of the investigation of fraud in the U.N. oil-for-food program.
		Chalabi's nephew, Salim Chalabi, who serves as Iraq's war crimes prosecutor, said U.S. military personnel and Iraqi police entered his uncle's home with their weapons drawn, threatened Chalabi's security personnel, put a gun to Chalabi's head and threatened him.
		Chalabi was the champion of a plan to rid Iraq of Baath Party influence that has caused rancor among many Iraqis.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/05/20/chalabi.raid (793 words)

	Informed Comment
		Although Chalabi maintains that the conviction was politically motivated (he claims Jordan had a tacit alliance with his enemy, Saddam), the bank's Switzerland branch was audited and what auditors found was not pretty.
		Chalabi's latter move was typically sleazy and implausible (the Americans are better at vetting people than to allow a recent Saddam spy to become Minister of Defense), and was extremely troubling.
		Chalabi was charged in May of 2004 with having passed sensitive US intelligence (the fact that the US had broken Iranian codes) to Iran, but the charges were ultimately quietly dropped and the prosecuting judge shunted off to desk work.
	www.juancole.com /2005/01/chalabi-to-be-arrested-political.html (1122 words)

	Ahmad Chalabi Biography
		Chalabi was a math professor at the American University in Beirut until 1977.
		Dr. Ahmad Chalabi was leader of Iraqi National Congress until April of 1999, when he was demoted to the rank of an ordinary member.
		Dr. Ahmad Chalabi has little support from leaders of the various Iraqi exile groups, or from Iraqis living in Iraq.
	www.iraqinews.com /people_chalabi.shtml (377 words)

	Ahmad Chalabi - Why shouldn't a politician be president of Iraq? By Chris Suellentrop
		Chalabi's supporters argue that he was set up by the Jordanian government because he was helping to fund the opposition to Saddam.
		Chalabi's military failures, his poor bookkeeping, and his lack of support inside Iraq have led some people at the State Department and the CIA to be skeptical about his prospects.
		Chalabi or whoever ultimately assumes power in Iraq show both sincerity and vigor in attempting to establish that country as a true democracy.
	www.slate.com /id/2081360 (1941 words)

	Ahmad Chalabi
		Chalabi's main channel into Iraq was a small council of exiles known as the Iraqi National Congress, created by the U.S. government as the "official" opposition group to the regime of Saddam Hussein.
		Case in point: Chalabi collaborated with the CIA in an attempt to stage an uprising against Saddam Hussein in March 1995.
		Chalabi briefly visits northern Iraq, for the first time in 39 years, and immediately tries to launch a revolution against Saddam, which fails when the U.S. pulls out its support after learning of a forged document that Chalabi gave to Iranian intelligence which claimed the CIA was trying to assassinate Saddam Hussein.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/misc/ahmed-chalabi (2916 words)

	Notes on Ahmad Chalabi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chalabi maintains that the Jordanian government was pressured by Iraq to turn against him, and he asserts that he has since rebuilt ties to the Jordanian government.
		Chalabi’s critics acknowledge that, despite allegations about his methods, he has been single-minded in his determination to overthrow Saddam Hussein, and he is said to be the favorite of those Administration officials, particularly in the Department of Defense, that were the most supportive of changing Iraq’s regime by force.
		On April 6, Chalabi and about 700 INC fighters ("Free Iraqi Forces") were airlifted by the U.S. military from their base in the north to the Nasiriya area, purportedly to help stabilize civil affairs in southern Iraq.
	www.sw-asia.com /People/Bio965.htm (740 words)

	Ahmad Chalabi, The Manipulator - Jane Mayer
		Chalabi told me that he would have preferred to sell the war to the American people on philosophical grounds, as a fight against genocidal tyranny and in favor of bringing democracy to the Arab world, but that this approach was rejected by the Bush Administration.
		Chalabi heads the finance committee of the Iraqi Governing Council, a U.S.-appointed group of twenty-five people representing Iraq’s religious and ethnic factions; as a result, he was able to install the oil, finance, and trade ministers, as well as the governor of Iraq’s Central Bank.
		When Chalabi was asked by CNN about his reinvention of himself as a religious leader, he said, “Why is this a concern?” But a former admirer of Chalabi’s was alarmed by his turn toward Shiite nationalism, and said that his actions risked unleashing sectarian political strife that could pitch the country into civil war.
	www.bintjbeil.com /articles/2004/en/0529_mayer.html (9488 words)

	The New York Times > International > Middle East > A Former Exile Sees His Political Hopes Revive in Iraq
		Chalabi as "routine," the latest of several, and similar to many that the Americans are holding with influential Iraqi leaders as the results of the Jan. 30 elections come into focus.
		Chalabi is in command of one of the largest blocs within the Shiite alliance, which appears certain to head the next government.
		Chalabi's footing in the Bush administration steadily eroded as it became clear that much of the intelligence he had turned over to the American government, which was used to justify an invasion, turned out to have been exaggerated or false.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/02/13/international/middleeast/13chalabi.html?ex=1265950800&en=8250226e07b77f51&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (827 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Profile: Ahmed Chalabi
		Ahmed Chalabi's appointment to the new Iraqi government is something of a revival for a man once touted at the Pentagon as a future president of Iraq.
		And after decades in exile, Mr Chalabi was one of the first Iraqis to be flown by the Pentagon to Iraq during the 2003 invasion, supposedly to allow him to consolidate his political base in the country.
		Mr Chalabi was also blamed for advising the Provisional Coalition Authority to dissolve the Iraqi army and the Baath party - two decisions that were criticised by many as responsible for the breakdown in law and order and alienating large sectors of Iraqi society.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/2925785.stm (841 words)

	Chalabi's House Raided by U.S. Troops (washingtonpost.com)
		Chalabi, at a news conference later, was furious.
		Chalabi, a wealthy businessman who returned to Iraq after decades of exile in London, won favor among Pentagon officials before the war for his ardent opposition to Hussein and as a generous source of information on Iraq's weapons programs.
		But it became clear soon after the fall of Baghdad that Chalabi enjoyed little support inside Iraq, and much of his pre-war intelligence has turned out to be wrong or "intentionally misleading," according to a recent U.S. assessment.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A41871-2004May20.html (687 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Chalabi: Bush's Mr. Wrong - Newsweek World News - MSNBC.com
		Ahmad Chalabi may go down as one of the great con men of history.
		Chalabi should not be a scapegoat for all that ails the American occupation of Iraq.
		Chalabi's attempts to foment an insurrection were aborted in a fiasco still known around the agency as the "Bay of Goats." His case officers didn't trust him.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5040831/site/newsweek (1542 words)

	CNN.com - Iraqi minister: Chalabi will be arrested - Jan 21, 2005
		Chalabi founded the bank in the late 1970s, and was convicted and sentenced in absentia for bank fraud by a Jordanian military court in 1992 -- a prosecution he insists was politically motivated.
		Chalabi blames Jordan for smearing him because he exposed the country's weapons-dealing with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
		Chalabi was a champion of the post-war program that sought to keep anyone associated with Saddam's Baathist regime from positions of authority in post-Saddam Iraq.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/01/21/iraq.chalabi (517 words)

	When George W. Bush met Ahmad Chalabi - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chalabi is an Iraqi leader that's fallen out of favor within your administration.
		The only question is who he knows better, Chalabi, or Enron's "Kenny Boy" Lay, another Bush intimate whom he later claimed not to be so cozy with.
		Chalabi is the presumptive leader of the opposition to Saddam.
	sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=When_George_W._Bush_met_Ahmad_Chalabi (842 words)

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