Chalabi Surges Back to Prominence

Elizabeth Sullivan, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)

...Yet there's one bad penny who just keeps coming up, and up and up: Ahmad Chalabi, the wily Iraqi exile banker who cozied up to Iranian intelligence under the very nose of the CIA and then helped land us in war with Iraq through intelligence misinformation. Incredibly, Chalabi now is in charge of the Iraqi government's civilian liaison for the "surge." He's Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's new right-hand man -- a role that should give every planner at the Pentagon pause -- running what the Wall Street Journal calls the "popular committee for mobilizing the people." (...) Chalabi's prominence says that Iran doesn't have to be invited into Iraq. It's already there. Chalabi's dual games with the CIA and Iranian intelligence go back at least to March 3, 1995...

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