May 21, 2004

Chalabi's Stunt

Yesterday's raid on Chalabi's home looks to me as a clever stunt to make him an anti-American figure in the eyes of average Iraqis so it could improve his extremely low popularity in Iraq. (Based on a recent poll, Chalabi is the least trusted leader in Iraq, even less than Saddam.)

We've seen a lot of these sort of things in Iran and nobody believes these stunts there anymore.

I really doubt that Bush Administration can afford loosing Chalabi simply like this.

Posted by hoder at May 21, 2004 12:49 AM

Comments
So, you believe that Chalabi hired the Iraq Police to raid his own home? If he did this, why haven't the American authorities in Iraq said as much? I personally think Chalabi is a crook who could well have done such a thing, but there has been no suggestion of this in the news media.
- By: David on May 22, 2004
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