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| | Whiskey Bar: Iraqi National Discord |
 | | According to forms filed with the Justice Department, Ayad Allawi, a member and former president of the Iraqi Governing Council, has begun an expensive lobbying and public relations effort to press U.S. officials to build a modern democratic government that builds on Iraq's existing foundations. |
 | | Abbas Kadhim, an Iraqi Shi'a refugee who now teaches at Berkeley, quotes the memoirs another Iraqi opposition figure, the late Talib Shibib, as claiming Allawi began his career as Baathist assassin during the party's first, brief and extremely bloody period in power in 1963. |
 | | Still, we have arrested and jailed thousands of innocent Iraqis for a year while Chalabi, though accused of providing classified info to a member of the axis of evil, is still walking around free in territory controlled by the US military. |
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