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05/22/2004:

"Whoops the Puppet has Robbed the Toy Store"

By suddenly distancing themselves from Chalabi the U.S. has in reality set him up to take power in Iraq. He is certainly a bandit after their own hearts

The Truth About Ahmed Chalabi
by Andrew Cockburn

Why the US Turned Against Their Former Golden Boy -- He was Preparing a Coup! What He Did as a Catspaw for Tehran: How He Nearly Bankrupted Jordan; the Billions He Stands to Make Out of the New Iraq.

In dawn raids today, American troops surrounded Ahmed Chalabi's headquarters and home in Baghdad, put a gun to his head, arrested two of his aides, and seized documents. Only five months ago, Chalabi was a guest of honor sitting right behind Laura Bush at the State of the Union. What brought about this astonishing fall from grace of the man who helped provide the faked intelligence that justified last year's war?

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