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Vice President AL GORE wrote to INC president Ahmed Chalabi on Aug. 4, 1993. He called INC leaders "spokespersons for millions," affirmed Washington's "solid commitment" to "your struggle" and pledged that U.S. officials "will not turn our backs." Chalabi used Gore's letter to rally anti-Saddam forces, only to have the U.S. refuse backing for an INC guerrilla offensive in March...
...only he can be the savior of Iraq and anyone else who attempts to save Iraq is a traitor." As for those in the Iraqi opposition, they dismissed him as a bloody agent of the repression they had fled. "He made approaches to a lot of us," said Ahmed Chalabi, leader of an opposition group. "He wanted us to follow him and cooperate. But nobody took him seriously. We consider him a war criminal. We didn't slam the door in his face; we just ignored...
Like other OPEC pacts, the truce came after days of heated negotiations. And like other OPEC pacts, it may prove ephemeral. Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aqazadeh broke a deadlock when he tentatively gave in to Iraqi Minister Isam Raheem al-Chalabi's demand for a quota equal to Iran's 2.6 million bbl. a day. To accommodate the 1 million bbl. increase in Iraq's quota, other OPEC members gave up a bit of their own allowances...