{"id":2489,"date":"2005-11-02T17:08:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T00:08:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-11-02T17:08:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T00:08:30","slug":"chalabi-the-neocons-bad-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/02\/chalabi-the-neocons-bad-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalabi &#8211; The neocons&#8217; bad penny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2005\/11\/3\/worldupdates\/2005-11-02T214438Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-221943-2&#038;sec=Worldupdates\">Chalabi returns<\/A> to the scene of the crime?  What&#8217;s up with that?<a href=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/chalabi_bar_alulum_khatami_1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"165\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/chalabi_bar_alulum_khatami_1.JPG\" title=\"Chalabi_bar_alulum_khatami_1\" alt=\"Chalabi_bar_alulum_khatami_1\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><BLOCKQUOTE>Though his personal electoral base is limited he has forged links with fellow Shi&#8217;ite groups, including nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and there is speculation he will put himself forward as prime minister, as he did after January&#8217;s ballot. <\/p>\n<p>Some U.S. officials have played down speculation, however, that the trip to Washington indicates an American willingness to promote Chalabi in that role. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve invited him to the U.S. I wouldn&#8217;t read more into it than that,&#8221; one official in Baghdad told reporters last week, pointing out Chalabi&#8217;s major operational role in handling Iraq&#8217;s budget and his position as coordinator of the oil industry. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have operational interests to discuss with the man and we&#8217;re going to do that,&#8221; the official said. <\/BLOCKQUOTE>I hope Fitzgerald hands him a subpoena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalabi returns to the scene of the crime? What&#8217;s up with that?Though his personal electoral base is limited he has forged links with fellow Shi&#8217;ite groups, including nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and there is speculation he will put himself forward as prime minister, as he did after January&#8217;s ballot. Some U.S. officials have played down [&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-2489","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\/2489","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=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}