Several highlights:
* Brokaw asked him if he was a leader manufactured by the U.S. He denied this, pointing, among other things, to the fact that he meets 300-600 Iraqis a day at his Baghdad HQ.
* He complained several times that Washington no longer seems so fond of him. For example, that compound was "secured" by the U.S military. His press guy asked the commanding officer whether the compound was being secured for or from the Iraqi National Congress, the officer said he couldn't answer.
* He's quite bothered by how the U.S. has marginalized Iraqis in the "post-liberation" environment, and is running the show pretty much by itself.
* He claims the U.S. is refusing to interview, or even pursue, weapons scientists. (Why they would do this is a mystery, but that's what he said.) He's convinced there are all kinds of WMDs stashed all over, but they're so well hidden that only the scientists know where they are. But most have now dispersed or fled.
* He claims to have turned over three weapons scientists to the U.S. forces - one a specialist in concrete injection, who helped build all those bunkers (but before handing him over to the U.S., the INC lent him out to Judith Miller of the NYT for an interview); another the guy who found the famed trailers; and the third someone the U.S. talked with briefly then "threw away."
* He's convinced Saddam is alive, wandering around an arc to the north and west of Baghdad, and in control of his weapons. ("Saddam Hussein and the weapons of mass destruction are one in the same.") SH is hoping the U.S. will tire of the occupation business, and then that will be his moment.
* On April 1 (April Fool's Day, which Chalabi didn't point out), Saddam was fitted for a suicide bomber's vest and trained in its use. So if he ever wants to go out in a blaze of glory, he can take some people with him.
Doug