US-backed Iraqi police take over Chalabi's Baghdad office

[Barrett808]

DOHA (AFP) - US-backed Iraqi police forces raided the Baghdad office of the Iraqi National Congress of disgraced Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi, Al-Jazeera television reported.

"Residential homes and offices affiliated to the INC were attacked yesterday. Today ... the locality (Baghdad office) was besieged by US and Iraqi forces. They then raided the place, which is referred to in Baghdad as 'Chinese House' and is now occupied," INC official Mithal al-Alusi told the news channel.

The raid came more than two weeks after Chalabi returned to Iraq to face an arrest warrant for banknote forgery but his political party refused to vacate its entire Baghdad headquarters as demanded by the government.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&e=2&u=/afp/20040827/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_chalabi_raid_040827144133

[babylon_system]

1. How the mighty have fallen.

Curveball, we hardly knew ye.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Maybe they can get all our money back.

If memory serves we were paying him $340k/mo

[JDPriestly]

3. Bush should resign in shame.

Chalabi lied. Bush foolishly trusted Chalabi and invaded Iraq based on Chalabi's lies. Our soldiers died. Innocent Iraqi children died. Bush should resign in shame.

[thebigidea]

4. sniff... the end of an era...

I notice the Chalabi warrants have kinda slipped out of the news. Billions of dollars of fraud, spying for the Iranians - none of that is nearly as important as John O'Fucking Neill

[Ms. Clio]

5. How many bodies did they find in the basement?

At least the AFP has the stones to point out that they are "US-backed Iraqi police forces," unlike our craven media.