Word: chalabi
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...from exile. Dr. Goran Talabani, a neurologist who is advising the Americans on Iraq's health-care system, says Baath loyalists are threatening Health Ministry employees and telling them not to cooperate with the Americans. Talabani, a cousin of Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani and a close adviser to Ahmed Chalabi, who heads the Iraqi National Congress, says he hears from several sources that the Baathists are allegedly reconstituting in secret under a new name: Hizballah al-'Auda (Party of the Return...
...intensity. The five opposition groups tapped by General Jay Garner to form the nucleus of a transitional government held a meeting in the city on Thursday. But rather than form a government themselves, the five - the leaders of the two main Kurdish parties, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani; Ahmed Chalabi from the Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress; Iyad Allawi, head of the Iraqi National Accord, an exile organization of Iraqi officials who defected from the regime; and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, a leader of the Iran-based Shiite organization the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - are calling...
...specter of Iranian influence and homegrown anti-American radicalism had reportedly prompted the Pentagon to accelerate the timetable for putting in place a friendly Iraqi leadership - preferably led by its favorite Iraqi exile, Ahmad Chalabi - in order to diminish the period of direct rule by the U.S. military. But the State Department had warned against a rush to install an exile-dominated leadership of uncertain standing among Iraqis. Next week, Garner hands the reins of the transition over to Paul "Jerry" Bremer, a seasoned State Department antiterrorism official tapped to supercede the retired general as U.S. viceroy in Baghdad...
...leaders, "It is like walking in a dark room holding your hands out, feeling for the walls and trying not to touch the furniture," says Garner. Discerning who is credible and who is corrupt requires trial and error. The night before the conclave, Garner met with exile leader Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress. He would not be attending in the morning--in many quarters there is deep opposition to him as a Pentagon puppet--but Garner wanted a chance to hear Chalabi's take on the situation. Pressed and proper in a tie and herringbone jacket, despite more...
...Baghdad, a key Chalabi ally, Mohammed Moshen al-Zubeidi, last week proclaimed himself governor, and announced that one of his underlings would represent Iraq next week at an Opec summit. But while al-Zubeidi was holding press conferences and meeting various locals (on the strength, it appears, of touting his connections with the American forces), the U.S. administrator for Baghdad, Barbara Bodine, announced that Washington did not recognize Zubeidi's authority, and even Chalabi's spokesman stressed that the self-styled governor was acting without INC authority...