This letter was sent to Mr. Chalabi by Vice President Al Gore on 4 August 1993.
More to the point, the abuse of Ahmed Chalabi did not begin with yesterday's raid.
Among those attending the session is a representative of Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress.
Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi complained Wednesday of shortfalls already occurring in Iraqi cities like Nasiriya.
Meanwhile, government sources said the FBI is investigating who may have passed on the classified information to Chalabi.
Ahmad Chalabi, a Washington-based Iraqi opposition leader, has urged America to act quickly to bring stability to the country.
Chalabi, a Shiite political figure who has kept ties with the leadership in Shia Iran, has strongly denied that allegation.
While Chalabi was a close adviser to the Pentagon, he was regarded as divisive and untrustworthy by the U.S. State Department.
Chalabi was convicted in absentia for bank fraud by a Jordanian military court in 1982 -- charges he insists were politically motivated.
By contrast, official American support for Chalabi has been tepid at best.
However, for the Arab media, Mr Chalabi was the epitome of an American stooge, a man who sold his soul to the devil.
"We look forward for cooperation with the U.N. in establishing and drafting a constitution, " said Chalabi, a former exile and a Pentagon favorite.
As the post-war situation deteriorated, and the pre-war intelligence Chalabi supplied about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction did not pan out, the relationship soured.
He has always denied being sidelined, but the first public sign of a possible rift between the Pentagon and Mr Chalabi came in mid-May.
This ignores the fact that Chalabi is an Iraqi patriot, first and foremost, not the American puppet his critics make him out to be.
Also, it was noted that Bush did not mention by name the president of the Iraqi Governing Council even though Ahmed Chalabi attended the speech.
Governing council head Ahmed Chalabi said the group would determine a method of selecting delegates to a constitutional convention but would not itself write the constitution.
Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, one of the top anti-Saddam groups based outside Iraq, has said he would send a representative to the meeting.
While living in London, where he was granted British citizenship, Mr Chalabi founded the INC, a broad coalition of opposition forces committed to establishing democracy in Iraq.
Abeer Chalabi heads the state orphanages section at the ministry.
His influence, however, is bitterly contested by his long-standing rival, Ahmed Chalabi, another secular Shia with an impressive financial base boosted by contracts from Iran and by the Pentagon.
One of the purported justifications for this ham-handed effort to take down Ahmed Chalabi is that he has been less and less of a U.S. ally in recent months.
Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi told CNN Wednesday the unconfirmed reports indicated that the Iraqi president had taken refuge in the city of Baqubah, northeast of the Iraqi capital.
Chalabi has denied charges that he passed intelligence information about U.S. operations in Iraq to the Iranians, and he has also dismissed fears that a hard-line Shiite regime might emerge in Iraq.
But we know that Ahmed Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, is not attending this meeting, he is sending a delegate, and that is a sign of those deep divisions.
Questioned by reporters about his travels to Iran to meet with senior officials there, Chalabi has insisted that it is logical and important for Iraq to establish a relationship with a key neighbor.
But rather than back down, Rumsfeld's forces fired off a letter to the White House, asking the President to take advantage of a swiftly changing situation in Iraq to install Chalabi's interim government.
On Thursday, Iraqi police, accompanied by American troops, raided Chalabi's compound -- a raid that Chalabi claimed was engineered by elements of the deposed Baathist regime, under protection of the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority.
Two congressional Democrats, Richard Durbin, a senator from Illinois, and George Miller, a congressman from California, want the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is probing pre-war intelligence failures, to subpoena Mr Chalabi to give testimony.
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