Iraq falling apart

[biffvernon]

I wouldn't call anybody using guns and bombs, including the UK and USA, 'moderate'. You can't moderately kill someone. It's extreme.

[raspberry-blower]

Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi who was instrumental in the Gulf war has died

Haitham al-Jabouri, secretary of parliament’s financial panel that Chalabi had chaired, said attendants had found him dead in his bed in his Baghdad home. A news flash on Iraqi state television said the cause was a heart attack.

A secular Shi’ite, Chalabi rose to prominence as leader of the then-exiled Iraqi National Congress, which played a major role in encouraging the US administration of former President George W. Bush to invade Iraq and oust Saddam.

“There are some people who will remember him in a good way, and there are others, to be honest, who do not like and did not want his politics,” said former prime minister Ayad Allawi.