The Machiavellian Snake

"When I first heard that Ahmad Chalabi recently gave an interview on al-Baghdadiya and was asked a few questions about my father I expected to hear some nonsensical gibberish. I didn't expect him to spew lie after lie in front of the camera.

The first time I met Chalabi was in September 2003 in the al-Khoei Foundation office building in London. He was a brilliant actor. He actually made everyone believe he was genuinely upset about my father and in no uncertain terms made it clear he believed the Sadrists, acting on orders from Moqtada al-Sadr, murdered my father. He then declared very pompously, but seriously 'when I go back to Iraq I will be the first to put a bag over Moqtada's head'.

When I heard that Chalabi a few months later was warming up to Moqtada, who as far as I could see had no bag over his head or handcuffs around his wrists, I knew Chalabi was a snake. It didn't take long for me to realise that he had left his friends in Washington and made new ones in Tehran. Courteous relations with the Sadr Movement was now not just expected of him, but demanded."
Eye Raki