The man replacing Chalabi was also an exile...

Mr al-Shahristani was also in Abu Graib prison, many years ago when Saddam was in charge. Now that Mr Chalabi has lost his credibility, the US is putting their stakes behind Shahristani. Some reporters are saying that the Iraqi people are not supportive of anyone that has been out of the country for so long to come back and be their leader.

...most of them were forced to "tough it out" thru Saddam's rule, a rule which had the stamp of Washington approval for many years, years in which the same men now bombing them were in power too.

He was the nuclear physicist who refused to build Saddam's bomb and wound up being tortured in Abu Ghraib for 10 years. He left the country in 1993 (I think) after the Gulf War. Chalabi left the country as a little boy in the 1950s. He never suffered a single day under Saddam's regime. In fact he prospered.

He played Bush and Cheney just like Chalabi did..

Could you provide a link? That would surprise me a bit. The guy sounds like a hero to me, but if you have evidence to the contrary, I'd like to see it.

this morning? I could be wrong...Maybe someone else can enlighten us about Shahristani?

"Before the U.S.-led invasion, al-Shahristani was among the Iraqi exiles who had insisted that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. In February 2003, he told CBS' 60 Minutes that such weapons may have been hidden in tunnels for a Baghdad subway that never opened.

Despite his concerns about such weapons, al-Shahristani said in London in 2002 that he was "extremely concerned of the consequences" of an invasion of Iraq on its people."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2004/05/26/473843-ap.html


Mr Shahristani, 62, has until now been most conspicuous for his criticisms of the US. Less than three weeks after the invasion last year, he voiced complaints about the behaviour of US forces in an interview with the Financial Times.

The Americans, he said, "have committed some very serious mistakes".


http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1084907825868