CNN staff on the scene saw a group of Iraqi civilians inside the compound under guard by Iraqi police and U.S. military.

In addition, an SUV was backed into the garage of the compound with people dressed in civilian clothes carrying out files from inside the headquarters.

Salim Chalabi, who serves as Iraq's war crimes prosecutor, said the U.S. military personnel and Iraqi police entered his uncle's home with their weapons drawn, and threatened Chalabi's security personnel.

Describing what his uncle told him, Salim said the forces were "looking for something" and were upset with Chalabi.

The forces also cordoned off the Iraqi National Congress headquarters in a separate building nearby, taking guns away from the security there, Salim said.

Pentagon cuts support to INC
The Pentagon made a final monthly payment of $340,000 to Chalabi's INC party in May, a senior Pentagon official said.

The payments, made under under the Iraqi Liberation Act, were aimed at getting information and providing training for INC members.

But they are ending because, as of June 30, the law supporting opposition groups becomes moot due to the fact Iraq will resume sovereignty over its own affairs, the official said.

An exile who lived abroad for more than four decades, Chalabi was convicted in absentia of bank fraud in 1992 by a military court in Jordan, where he had founded a bank that failed. He says the charges were politically motivated.

The Pentagon flew him into Iraq with a group of followers after the U.S.-led invasion last year, giving him an opportunity to establish a political base.


Chalabi is believed to have been a source of intelligence about Iraq's alleged WMD.
But analysts say he has struggled to drum up support.

Although he was a favorite of the Pentagon, but became regarded as divisive and untrustworthy by the State Department.

He is believed to have been a source of intelligence about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, which have not been discovered since Saddam's regime fell.

He was also the champion of a plan to rid Iraq of Baath Party influence that has caused rancor among many Iraqis.

 http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/20/chalabi.raid/index.html



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so, what goes on here?

Chalabi is a neocon stooge...
as the iraqi national congress

Is this yet more Psyops in order to set Chalabi up as
a friend to the Iraqi people...?

Or Is he genuinly pissed at the appointment of Negroponte
as Iraq ambassador?

I smell REAL politik...


U.S. To Annoint Chalabi As The New Saddam
"Chalabi holds the ultimate weapons -- several dozen tons of documents and individual files seized by his Iraqi National Congress from Saddam Hussein's secret security apparatus. Coupled with his position as head of the de-Baathification commission, Chalabi, barely a year since he returned to his homeland after 45 years of exile, has emerged as the power behind a vacant throne. He also appears to have impressive amounts of cash at his disposal and a say in which companies get the nod for some of the $18.4 billion earmarked for reconstruction. One company executive who asked that both his and the company's name be withheld said, "The commission was steep even by Middle Eastern standards."
BNN
 http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=7b7f036b665d16c7


"If T.E. Lawrence ("of Arabia") had been a 21st-century neoconservative operative instead of a British imperial spy, he'd be Ahmed Chalabi's best friend. Chalabi, the London-based leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), is front man for the latest incarnation of a long-time neoconservative strategy to redraw the map of the oil-rich Middle East, put American troops -- and American oil companies -- in full control of the Persian Gulf's reserves and use the Gulf as a fulcrum for enhancing America's global strategic hegemony. Just as Lawrence's escapades in World War I-era Arabia helped Britain remake the disintegrating Ottoman Empire, the U.S. sponsors of Chalabi's INC hope to do their own nation building."
Tinker, Banker, NeoCon, Spy
 http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/21/dreyfuss-r.html

[..."Chalabi, a secular Iraqi Shiite Muslim and mathematician by training, previously served as chairman of the Petra Bank in Jordan, where he engaged in various cloak-and-dagger operations that ended abruptly in August 1989 when he fled the country "under mysterious circumstances" and in 1992 was convicted in absentia for embezzlement, fraud and currency-trading irregularities, sentencing him to 22 years' hard labour"...]

[..."Chalabi even participated in a secret Defense Policy Board meeting just a few days after the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon in which the main topic of discussion, according to the 'Wall Street Journal', was how 9/11 could be used as a pretext for attacking Iraq."...]
disinfopedia
 http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Ahmed_Chalabi