Coup A Go Go by mike · 2004-05-21 Why did the Bush administration turn against its former favorite Iraqi [Ahmed Chalabi]? Almost certainly because it realized that Chalabi, maddened by the realization that he was being excluded from the post-June 30 hand-over arrangements, was putting together a sectarian Shiite faction to destabilize and destroy the new Iraqi government. “This all started since [U.N. envoy Lakhdar] Brahimi announced that Chalabi would be kept out of the new arrangement”. Earlier here. Related