america's_best_friend_in_iraq_say____________ May202004 "Let my people go. Let my people be free. It is time for the Iraqi people to run their affairs" "I am a friend of the United States," "I am America's best friend in Iraq;" Ahmed Chalabi 040520 ... iMay202004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3731819.stm 040520 ... black sometimes i wonder why i even open bullshit like this, and then i wonder why i'm surprised when i see whats on the screen in short, go away preach somewhere else 040520 ... ??? "42_min_ago_Bush_says_Iraqis_ready_to_take_power" 040520 ... May202004 From Ally to Outcast in U.S. Eyes 6 minutes ago WASHINGTON — The raid on Ahmad Chalabi's Baghdad home offered proof Thursday of collapsing U.S. support for the former exile once viewed by Bush administration officials as their greatest hope to lead a new Iraq Chalabi was one of the primary advocates for the war, and he was well positioned to argue the case as head of an umbrella exile group called the Iraqi National Congress, which he helped organize in the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War The INC has received $27 million from the U.S. government over the last four years... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20040521/ts_latimes/fromallytooutcastinuseyes&cid=2026&ncid=1480 040521 ... May212004 Chalabi's decision to cut ties with coalition stirs controversy in Iraq 10 minutes ago In Baghdad, the interim Governing Council was to meet later Friday to discuss its response to a US-backed raid on Ahmed Chalabi's home, which led the one-time protege of the Pentagon to sever his ties with the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). The US-installed council, of which Chalabi is a member, already had been shaken by Monday's assassination of its president, Ezzedine Salim. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040521/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us&cid=1514&ncid=1480 040521 ... phil revolution 040521 ... iMay232004 The Rise and Fall of Chalabi: Bush's Mr. Wrong http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5040831/ 040523 ... iMay212004 *** * May 21, 2004: Iraqi Poll *** Support for radical Iraqi cleric surging, poll shows Nearly 70% of Iraqis back the insurgency leader (Moqtada_Al_Sadr) to some degree, while 90% now see US forces as occupiers, not liberators http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:GqGrVQEdGSoJ:straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,251995-1085176740,00.html+++Support+for+radical+Iraqi+cleric+surging+Financial+Times+AFP+&hl=en 040523 ... ? * Live_Vote * 040523 ... iMay232004 The glass covering a picture of Mr Ahmad Chalabi was smashed during the raid by US troops and Iraqi police on his offices in Baghdad yesterday. -- AFP http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/mnt/media/image/launched/2004-05-21/world12.jpg 040523 ... iMay232004 *** * Iraqi Death Toll *** (May 1, 2003 to April 20, 2004) The AP survey of morgues in Baghdad and the provinces of Karbala, Kirkuk and Tikrit:- 5,558 violent deaths recorded from May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared an end to major combat operations, to April 30. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040524/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_violent_deaths&cid=540&ncid=716 040523 ... ? * Death_Toll * 040523 what's it to you? who go blather from