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U.S. Raids Chalabi HQ, Dispute Rages on Iraq Attack

HE FOOLED THE AMERICANS BIG TIME AND GOT PAID $30MILLIONS  AND NEVER TOLD ONE IRAQI SECRET TO THE US!!

Photo: A cameraman films the damage inside Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi's residence in Baghdad, Iraq   U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police raided the residence of longtime American ally Ahmad Chalabi on Thursday, and aides accused the Americans of trying to pressure him to stop complaining about U.S. plans for Iraq after sovereignty is transferred in about six weeks. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops and Iraqi police raided the home and party offices of Washington's former top Iraq  ally Ahmad Chalabi on Thursday, whipping up fresh turbulence in the run-up to a U.S. handover of power.  Iraqi judge Hassan Muathin said the raid was carried out under an arrest warrant for men wanted for stealing state-owned vehicles, but CBS reported Chalabi had passed sensitive U.S. intelligence to Iran that could "get Americans killed."  The U.S. television network cited unidentified senior U.S. officials for its information, but no independent confirmation of the report was immediately available.  On another front, Washington battled to contain a dispute over an air strike on Wednesday that grieving Iraqis said killed dozens of guests at a desert wedding near the Syrian border. A U.S. general said the raid killed foreign fighters and that "bad things happen in wars." 

 Images of dead women and children on Arab television were a new setback for President Bush's handling of Iraq, already beset by a scandal over abuse of Iraqi prisoners. Bush, campaigning for re-election in November and preparing a keynote speech on Monday on plans for a June 30 handover of power to Iraqis, asked fellow Republicans to keep the faith as he sought to ease jitters over his lowest opinion poll ratings.  "He believes in what he's doing and he will stay on course for his beliefs, no matter what the political cost is," said David Hobson, who attended the closed-door meeting with Bush.

Photo: Mr Chalabi. Did he serve the American interests? The Iraqi people? Or simply himself? The US paid him $30 Millions for information gathering!!

CHALABI VENTS FURY: Chalabi, once touted by some in the Bush administration as a potential national leader in Iraq, angrily accused Washington after the raid of being out to get him because he wanted more power for Iraqis than was on offer in the planned U.S. handover.  He said U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police sealed off the neighborhood around the headquarters of his Iraqi National Congress (INC) and a nearby house he uses, removing computers, files, a copy of the Koran and other personal items.  "I was asleep. I opened the door and police came into my home carrying pistols," Chalabi, a member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, told reporters.  "Let my people be free.

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