More On Proconsul Chalabi & The Puppet Regime

Iraqis know Chalabi as a crook. He defrauded depositors out of $300 million when his Petra Bank in Jordan collapsed in the late 1980s. In 1992, after Chalabi escaped Jordan, reportedly with the help of then-Crown Prince Hassan, the brother of King Hussein, a Jordanian court found Chalabi guilty of fraud and sentenced him to 22 years at hard labor. Jordan has an Interpol red notice out for Chalabi’s arrest. But Chalabi will not face a Jordanian jail cell. Instead, his patrons, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Jay Garner, Scooter Libby, Michael Ledeen, and James Woolsey are pushing him as the new prime minister of Iraq. And for good measure, Chalabi’s old friend, Hassan of Jordan, is being mentioned as the person to head up a restored Hashemite monarchy in Baghdad.