[lbo-talk] The Last Crumb, well, Crumbles

[Brad Mayer]

Another installment in the Tale of the Latter-Day Alcibiades:

May 20, 2004

*** CounterPunch Exclusive ***
The Truth About Ahmed Chalabi
Why the US Turned Against Their Former Golden Boy -- He was Preparing a
Coup! What He Did as a Catspaw for Tehran: How He Nearly Bankrupted
Jordan; the Billions He Stands to Make Out of the New Iraq
By ANDREW COCKBURN

http://www.counterpunch.org/chalabi05202004.html

When I first saw reports of the raid on Chalabi, I wondered if this
wasn't a move increase Chalabi's popularity among the Iraqi masses (See,
I too suffer at the hands of the occupiers), but apparently not.