The Globe and Mail Postwar politicking heats up
By MARK MacKINNON
From Friday's Globe and Mail
Baghdad � The American military victory is barely secure and Saddam Hussein's regime has only just been vanquished, but the jockeying for political position in the new Iraq has already begun.
Prominent opposition figure Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the exile Iraqi National Congress, was in Baghdad yesterday, his first appearance in the Iraqi capital since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958. A long-time darling of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Mr. Chalabi has frequently been touted by Washington as a potential Iraqi head of state.
While Mr. Chalabi denies he is interested in political office, the INC is already hard at work establishing itself as the pre-eminent post-Hussein political organization.
By MARK MacKINNON
From Friday's Globe and Mail
Baghdad � The American military victory is barely secure and Saddam Hussein's regime has only just been vanquished, but the jockeying for political position in the new Iraq has already begun.
Prominent opposition figure Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the exile Iraqi National Congress, was in Baghdad yesterday, his first appearance in the Iraqi capital since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958. A long-time darling of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Mr. Chalabi has frequently been touted by Washington as a potential Iraqi head of state.
While Mr. Chalabi denies he is interested in political office, the INC is already hard at work establishing itself as the pre-eminent post-Hussein political organization.
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