Reply #22: Condi and Hadley want him to be the New Iraqi PM!! [View All]

[leftchick]

From AFP...

The visit is likely to mark a political rehabilitation in the United States of the controversial former Iraqi exile leader, whose Baghdad headquarters were raided in 2004 and who was accused of passing on secret information to Iran.

The Time magazine report says Chalabi will have potentially more significant meetings with national security adviser Stephen Hadley and perhaps Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Both now believe Chalabi is a plausible and acceptable candidate to be the next prime minister of Iraq when that nation votes for a new government on December 15, Time notes, citing unnamed high-ranking administration officials.

The magazine says there are few optimists about Iraq left in the Congress, intelligence community or US military.

But the Bush administration harbors a strand of hope that the election will finally produce a strong Iraqi government, a real coalition of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, the report argues.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051023/pl_afp/usiraqchalabi_051023211217;_ylt=Ak0f_CEDyjfecnDB8jtijFBX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl