Whatever happened to Chalabi?

[Massacure]

I got a test back from last week. The tests are based on weekly current events. One of the questions was who was the leader of Iraq. I put Chalabi but the answer was Talabani. Whatever happened to Chalabi?

[Fridays Child]

1. He's probably vacationing in Iran. I have to hand it to that bastard...

...he played Bushco like a cheap fiddle. Satan v. Satan.

[rwheeler31]

2. He is head of oil ministry or something, I think.

nt

[karlrschneider]

3. That's what I last heard, from a few months ago...

:eyes:

[enigma000]

4. He's one of the Deputy PMs

He was temporarily the Minister of the Oil Sector but now he is deputy PM

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/10697

Not sure what he is up to now. I imagine he's plotting a comeback for the December 2005 elections.

[karlrschneider]

5. The awful truth is that you might well be more correct than your teacher

on this...in a reality-based universe.
:eyes:

[Massacure]

7. Was Chalabi actually prime minister at one point?

[enigma000]

8. I don't think so.

Dr. Iyad Allawi was. Bio attached.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allawi

[Massacure]

9. Allawi!!! That is who I was thinking of.

I was going to try and argue about that answer tomorrow but it was Allawi I was thinking of, not Chalabi. I don't have a case.

[enigma000]

11. Chalabi never made it to the top ranks

As much as the neo-cons tried.

As for Allawi, I read somewhere that he is trying to expand his power base by negotiating with moderate Sunni Arab factions. He might also be trying for a comeback in the December elections. Wouldn't that be a hoot!

[Imagevision]

6. He's head of Iraq's Oil Ministry, does it get any better?!!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[louis-t]

10. You mean the phony WMD informant?

The one who was convicted in abstentia of looting a Jordani bank of $30 mil? The one who was smuggled out of Jordan in the trunk of a car? Wolfowitz's buddy? The one who convinced a brainless administration that Iraqis would greet us as liberators? The one who is suspected of spying for Iran? The one who stood behind shrub at his SOTU address yet shrub claims he doesn't know him? He got what he wanted. Not quite a Freedom Medal winner, yet he has (or had)a great deal of power as Oil Minister and may yet reward his * cronies with great sums of money should Iraq ever become stable again.

[wiggs]

12. The one who

said that it didn't matter what was said in order for America to get into Iraq....what is important is that America is in Iraq, .

Amazing isn't it? I hope the newfound interest in Bush appointees will carry over into an evaluation of Chalabi, Negroponte, Poindexter, Bolton, and all the corporate lobbyists who are now in charge of regulating their own industries. Chalabi would be an easy target.

[enigma000]

13. That would be him

Made it to the level of Deputy PM. Wonder was his job title will be after the Dec. elections?

President?

Assistant-Junior coat-check guy?

Could go either way

[applegrove]

14. Jordanians were told by Bush not to even think of prosecuting him

for bank fraud - and all is well.