Where's Achmed Chalabi?

[Yavin4]

We need to keep tabs on him.

[seemslikeadream]

1. Iran

:shrug:

[speedoo]

2. Excellent question. Iran is a good answer. nt

[magellan]

4. That would be my guess too

Fomenting unrest and generally earning his salary from BushCo.

[seemslikeadream]

3. He was in Damasucs on December 13

http://www.nysun.com/article/45092

Chalabi Emerges In Damascus On Peace Quest
By ELI LAKE
Staff Reporter of the Sun
December 13, 2006

WASHINGTON — A little-noticed visit by Ahmad Chalabi to Syria is igniting speculation that the former Iraqi exile leader is emerging as a key channel between Damascus and Washington.

After a weekend meeting with the Syrian foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, Mr. Chalabi announced that Syria and Iraq would formally open their respective embassies in Damascus and Baghdad on Monday. An American diplomat said yesterday that Mr. Chalabi also was gauging the interest of the Assad regime in a limited rapprochement with America.

Mr. Chalabi regularly consults with the American ambassador to Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad. On Saturday, Mr. Chalabi told reporters that Syria and Iraq were considering joint patrols along the porous border they share.

While Mr. Chalabi's opposition organization had offices in Damascus throughout the 1990s, he had not visited Syria since before the war. Mr. Chalabi's weekend visit is also notable because Syria has helped fund and supply the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. In some ways, it also reflects new political realities following the Iraq war, including a military and intelligence alliance between Syria and Iran, whose ruling mullahs often consult Mr. Chalabi on Iraq.

[Marie26]

5. Good question

Looks like he was just on a "peace mission" in Syria.

WASHINGTON — A little-noticed visit by Ahmad Chalabi to Syria is igniting speculation that the former Iraqi exile leader is emerging as a key channel between Damascus and Washington.

After a weekend meeting with the Syrian foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, Mr. Chalabi announced that Syria and Iraq would formally open their respective embassies in Damascus and Baghdad on Monday. An American diplomat said yesterday that Mr. Chalabi also was gauging the interest of the Assad regime in a limited rapprochement with America.

Mr. Chalabi regularly consults with the American ambassador to Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad. On Saturday, Mr. Chalabi told reporters that Syria and Iraq were considering joint patrols along the porous border they share.

http://www.nysun.com/article/45092

[seemslikeadream]

6. yea peace mission

:hi:

[Marie26]

9. Jinx!

:hi: Sorry, I posted the same article you did! Chalabi on a peace mission is a little hard to swallow, isn't it? The article says he reports to Zalmay Khalilzad, who Bush just appointed as Ambassador to the UN. I wonder if the neocons are still using Chalabi for their various schemes.

[acmavm]

7. I wonder if KKKarl's with him?

[JohnnyRingo]

8. I thought he landed the Oil Ministry gig

I don't think he was elected, but appointed by an independent Iraqi govt with absolutely no ties to The Decider....none at all.

I may be wrong, or maybe something happened since to have him run out of town on the Persian Express, but I remember expressing shock at such a report(?)

[Ian_rd]

10. Cheney would never abandon his favorite Iranian spy!

Their affection for each other is far too great:

http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=25193

[NNN0LHI]

11. Who do you think is running the death squads that Negoponte set up?

Check the Interior Ministry. Chalabi hangs out there.

Don