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Wed 03 Mar 2010Chalabi still angling for top job despite unpopularity
A man who was key to the US invasion of Iraq is leveraging his recently won parliament seat, writes MICHAEL JANSEN
THE MOST controversial figure to secure election in Iraq’s March 7th parliamentary poll was Ahmad Chalabi, the man who convinced the Bush administration to invade his country and topple the Baath party regime. Chalabi is both survivor and creature of contradictions. Once Washington’s darling, Chalabi alienated the US by aligning himself with Iran. A secular politician, he ran on the ticket of the Shia fundamentalist Iraqi National Alliance (INA).
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