guess who attended the NEW Iraqi government ceremonies...Chalabi !. photos

[diamond14]

Ahmed Chalabi, centre, looks on with other unidentified delegates as the new Iraqi government is sworn in during a ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday June 28, 2004. The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government two days early Monday in a surprise move that apparently caught insurgents off guard, averting a feared campaign of attacks to sabotage the highly symbolic step toward self-rule. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)



Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, left, is congradualted with a kiss from Ahmed Chalabi after Allawi was sworn in to office at a ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday June 28, 2004. The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government two days early Monday in a surprise move that apparently caught insurgents off guard, averting a feared campaign of attacks to sabotage the highly symbolic step toward self-rule. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)



Former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi (L) is squeezed aside as well-wishers congratulate President Ghazi al-Yawar (2nd L, at rear) after a swearing-in ceremony in the capital Baghdad June 28, 2004. The United States handed sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government two days earlier than expected Monday, aiming to forestall guerrilla attacks with a secretive ceremony formally ending 14 months of occupation. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber

link to 'chalabi' photos on Yahoo....the raid on chalabi's offices and comments by rummy and colin are still there with photos from May 2004...what a difference a month makes...
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=news_photos&p=chalabi

[notadmblnd]

1. he looks like the cat

who swallowed a canary. Is Allawai his MiniMe?

[DemoTex]

2. Great post "amen1234"

You have caught the very essence of the "hand-over." We generally call this kind of thing "fraud." Welcome to Bu$hville (the moral equivalent to Vietnam's "Pinkville," aka "My Lai-4.").

[diamond14]

7. "Pinkville"?

I'd like to hear more about that.....

[DemoTex]

12. "Pinkville" (aka My Lai) and Seymour Hersh reporting did more to end Nam .

Than any other thing I know. The collective My Lai villages were known as "Pinkville." Calley's massacre was in My Lai-4.

[diamond14]

22. thanks....eom

:hi:

[mike1963]

3. Seven to three he's back on the payroll.

(secretly, of course...maybe a Halliburton "consultant"?)

Wotta fukin farce

[Atman]

4. You'd think a traitor like that would be in jail, right?

He single-handedly tricked the entire US intel aparatus into a war, so we ransacked his office, then let him go attend a few cocktail parties. We'll smoke out those evil doers, right Mr. Bush?

[Wind Dancer]

5. Our government and media are a joke!

You couldn't make this stuff up, it just never ends.

[Veggie Meathead]

6. I would like to make a prediction: Chalabi or his hand picked assassins

will eliminate Allawi and Chalabi will step up to his preordained role as the new Shah of Iraq.A hand picked U.S. puppet will be born.This may very well last for a couple of decades until he will meet the same fate as the Shah of Iran.The looting of Iraq and the suffering of the Iraqi people will exact a very high toll.

[iangb]

10. Chalabi and Allawi are family.....

...just go's to show that Bush has learned something........

.......Nepotism works!

[psychopomp]

8. I'm confused

Chalabi has to have some real dirt on a lot of people...WTF is he doing at the handover? Looks to me like nobody is in charge of anything in Iraq and it is moving along with its own momentum.

[proud patriot]

9. ummmm , why is this dude given a pass ?

didn't he transfer secret info to Iran?

[diamond14]

11. PHOTOS from last few weeks, with story of chalabi's crimes...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld chats with members of the press corps aboard the Air Force E-4B airborne command and control aircraft, before takeoff at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland late June 2, 2004. Rumsfeld said on Thursday he did not know if Iraqi leader Ahmad Chalabi told Iran that Washington had broken Tehran's secret communications code. 'I just don't know,' Rumsfeld told reporters travelling with him from Washington to Singapore for an Asia security conference. REUTERSGerald Herbert/POOL


The glass in a portrait of Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi is seen smashed after Iraqi police and US troops raided his head office in Baghdad 21 May 2004. US officials are trying to find out who shared top-secret information on Iran with Ahmad Chalabi, the disgraced Iraqi politician accused of passing the information on to Tehran, US media reported.(AFP/File/Ramzi Haidar)


The Bush administration told Congress on June 2, 2004 that it will probe whether one-time ally Ahmad Chalabi undermined U.S. security and officials said the FBI was investigating who leaked top secret information to the former Iraqi exile that allegedly was given to Iran. Government officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Chalabi was alleged to have told Iran that the United States had broken secret communication codes used by Tehran's spy service. Chalibi is pictured addressing a news conference in this May 20, 2004 file photo. REUTERS/Thier Al-Sudani

link to 'chalabi' photos on Yahoo....the raid on chalabi's offices and comments by rummy and colin are still there with photos from May 2004...what a difference a month makes...
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=news_photos&p=chalabi

[acmavm]

13. This is just surreal. What the hell is that guy doing there? The guy who

is supposed to have given secrets to Iran.

What the hell kind of nonsense is this. An American would have been lined up against a wall and shot. For less. And now this f*** is sitting there like the Cheshire Cat at the turn-over of the government to the Iraqis (yeah, right).

Well it looks like Perle and Wolfie cleared up the misunderstanding about all that, don't it? No spying and lying, no theft of OUR money that was supposed to go the Iraqi rebuilding project.

[Wind Dancer]

15. This is insane! I can't figure out what the hell

is happening. It simply never ends with this administration.

[Straight Shooter]

14. Maybe they're just giving him a little freedom to, er, drive over an IED

The more comfortable Chalabi feels milling about Iraq, the more likely he is to become the "victim" of an assassin's target. Poof! No more Chalabi = no more problem for *.

[liveoaktx]

16. So peculiar! What exactly is his status? I assume we can't

charge him with anything under US law, nor investigate him fully for what we have accused him of. So, what, he walks?

[DeepModem Mom]

17. kick

[leftchick]

18. Has Biden or any other Democrat seen this display of US FRAUD in Iraq

Biden turns absolutely purple when he speaks of chalabi. Well Joe?!? Watcha think now? :grr:

[southernleftylady]

19. This is amazing n/t

[diamond14]

20. not a single paper or TV report mentioned this IMPORTANT fact

....it was a small ceremony, and there should have been coverage about WHO was there....

these photos were posted to all news media by BRAVE Reuters and AP camera people...yet NO ONE published or showed these photos on TV....

[spanone]

21. Bush* handles handover like everything 'A Big Secret"

Don't let the stupid American public know what's going on. Chalabi ought to be at Abu Gharib instead he's at The Fucking Party. The American people weren't invited but Chalabi was. Hmmmmmmm