Chalabi aide arrested on suspicion of Baghdad bombings

[Robbien]

Source: McClatchy

BAGHDAD — U.S. forces have arrested a deputy of Ahmad Chalabi, who was once the Bush administration's favorite Iraqi politician, and implicated him in bombings that killed Americans and Iraqis, Chalabi and Iraqi government officials said Thursday.

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Ali Faisal al Lami, a Shiite Muslim official and a member of the Sadrist Party who's serving as an executive of the Justice and Accountability Committee, which Chalabi heads, was arrested Wednesday at Baghdad International Airport as he returned from a family vacation in Lebanon, Iraqi officials said. The Justice and Accountability Committee screens former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party who are applying for jobs in the government.

The American military doesn't release the names of those it detains. Maj. John C. Hall, a U.S. spokesman in Baghdad said the arrested man was implicated in "multiple criminal acts including bombings and attacks against Iraqi targets" including the bombing June 24 of the Sadr City District Advisory Council meeting, which killed six Iraqis, two American soldiers and two U.S. civilians.

The blast ripped through the municipal building just before elections for a chairman of the advisory council in a neighborhood that's mostly controlled by supporters of renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr. It was thought to have targeted Hassan Shamma, the leading candidate for the office.

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[AlbertCat]

1. That's right....

.... get "rid" of the evidence about how you Bushies lied us into war....get "rid" of Chalabi...

[tabasco]

2. He was probably one of the hired hands who pulled down Saddam's statue.

One of the phoniest propaganda events ever sponsored by the American corporate whore media.

[maddezmom]

3. kick

I missed this yesterday.

[Barrett808]

4. Back in the 90s, Chalabi did arrange the bombings of a bus and a theater in Iraq...

...to prove to the CIA his connections in Iraq, iirc.

[fascisthunter]

5. Bush's own guy.... Chalabi