The truth about Ahmed Chalabi...

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...Why the US turned against their former golden boy: he was preparing a coup.

U.S. troops raided Ahmed Chalabi’s headquarters and home in Baghdad yesterday morning. Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress, provided false intelligence on Saddam Hussein. Now, this former close ally of the Bush administration has fallen from grace. We speak with journalist Andrew Cockburn of the Independent and Counterpunch.
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In dawn raids yesterday, American troops and Iraqi police surrounded the headquarters and home of one of Washington's top allies in Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi-head of the Iraqi National Council. US troops put a gun to his head, arrested two of his aides, and seized documents.

Only five months ago, Chalabi was a guest of honor sitting right behind Laura Bush at the State of the Union. What brought about this astonishing fall from grace of the man who helped provide the faked intelligence that justified last year's war? That is the question posed by veteran independent journalist and author Andrew Cockburn in a new piece on counterpunch.org. He joins us on the line from Washington DC.

Streaming interview

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1. Can we get our money back?

The $40 million this convicted embezzler has apparently conned out of the unbelievably stupid neocons sure could do some good around here.