{"id":1282,"date":"2004-09-02T01:11:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T08:11:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-09-02T01:11:14","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T08:11:14","slug":"ahmad-chalabi-teflon-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/02\/ahmad-chalabi-teflon-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmad Chalabi: Teflon Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><font size=\"2\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"10%\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/chalabiNA.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/chalabiNA.html','popup','width=250,height=164,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chalabiNA\" src=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/chalabiNA-thumb.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"114\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12px;\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\" color=\"#800000\">Former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi (L) talks with a member of Iraq&#8217;s interim parliament on the sidelines of the first meeting of Iraq&#8217;s interim parliament in Baghdad, Sept. 1, 2004. Chalabi escaped from an assassination attempt, which left two of his bodyguards wounded near Baghdad on Wednesday. (Xinhua Photo)<br \/><\/font>   <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.back-to-iraq.com\/archives\/000815.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Albritton<\/a> went to an Ahmed Chalabi press conference today and this is what Chalabi says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Chalabi:<\/b> I was attacked this morning, but I\u2019m fine, thanks.<br \/>\n<b>Question: <\/b>Can you tell us about the counterfeiting charges against you and the murder rap against your nephew?<br \/>\n<b>Chalabi:<\/b> Oh, those\u2026 (chuckle.) They were reduced to a summons. I went to the judge (al-Malaki) today and all charges have been dropped against us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chris is rightly mystified as to when and how the charges were dropped.  It also helps explain something I was wondering today.  Why was Chalabi going to the National Assembly session today?  I seem to remember a bit of a stink about him being dropped from the thing after the counterfeiting charge.  What about the Iranian spy business?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi (L) talks with a member of Iraq&#8217;s interim parliament on the sidelines of the first meeting of Iraq&#8217;s interim parliament in Baghdad, Sept. 1, 2004. Chalabi escaped from an assassination attempt, which left two of his bodyguards wounded near Baghdad on Wednesday. (Xinhua Photo) Chris Albritton went to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}