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...ABAKAR ISMAIL AHMAD, refugee...
Once upon a time, Ahmad Chalabi had friends in high places. The M.I.T.-educated Iraqi exile was the odds-on choice of a powerful coterie inside the Bush Administration to run Iraq once Saddam Hussein was gone. In the fall of 2002, well before the U.S. invaded, Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith was trying to get Congress to release $97 million earmarked for groups, like Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.), that were agitating for regime change. The Administration was relying on Chalabi's sources to provide intelligence on Saddam's alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction...
...AHMAD CHALABI: What's next...
...process, he managed to force the Bush Administration into agreeing to give the United Nations a greater role in Iraq's reconstruction and ensured that Iraqi Shi'ites' newfound political power would be cemented in elections. "His message is very simple: Democracy equals elections; elections equal democracy," says Ahmad Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress...
...Islamic world slipped out of their natural confines, as they did on Sept. 11, 2001, neoconservatives were able to argue that something dramatic was needed to ameliorate the threat to the West. Only transformation of the politics of the Islamic nations would suffice. Lewis--who is close to Ahmad Chalabi, the neocons' favorite Iraqi politician--became an advocate of intervention in Iraq in the hope of establishing a modern democracy there...