Every time you mention Chalabi’s name to an Iraqi, they want to puke
I noticed this CIA-authored pearl of wisdom concerning Bush’s anointed Iraqi crony in the middle of an especially illuminating roundup of current Iraqi developments… outside of the tedious reports of scripted US troop manoeuvres.
A little-known Iraqi militia called the Iraqi Coalition of National Unity (ICNU) has apparently taken over the town of Hay Al Ansar in southern Iraq, with the backing of US special forces. According to the Financial Times, the people of Hay Al Ansar were happy ‘to be rid of the Ba’ath party government’but they appear to be just as terrified, if not more so, of their new rulers’. The FT says the ICNU ‘has taken to looting and terrorising the neighbourhood with impunity’.