Ex US Diplomat: Chalabi was written off by the US as a swindler

[sabra]

http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-diplomacy25sep25,0,738097.story?coll=cl-books-utility-right

Ex-diplomat saw Iraq as 'I quit' issue
John Brady Kiesling's new book tells why U.S. invasion plans forced his 2003 resignation.

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He then speculates pointedly as to whether this kind of humbling experience might have kept Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from falling so hard for Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi, "an indicted embezzler who had already been written off by both the CIA and the State Department as a swindler."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040120-5.html

Special Guests of Mrs. Bush at the State of the Union

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Dr. Ahmed Chalabi Iraqi Governing Council Member Dr. Chalabi is founder and head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC). He is also a mathematics professor and a businessman.

[sabra]

1. anyone know where Chalabi is these days?

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. He didn't win any seats in the December 2005 election

So when they finally formed a government around June this year, he wasn't in it, at last. Howeverm he still got to go to this year's Bilderberg meeting of powerful people in Ottawa, so someone thinks he still might get some power back.

[babylonsister]

3. Yet he was here in the US less than a year ago being wined and

dined by the evil cabal:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/06/AR2005110600321.html