American Samizdat

Thursday, May 22, 2003. *
An excellent WSJ piece this morning, showing that Ahmad Chalabi, the scumbag tapped by Resident Bush to preside over Iraq, did not embezzle $30 million from a Jordanian bank as has been widely reported. No, he seems to have been complicit in the disappearance of a full $158 million. The Journal notes that courts found that Chalabi, too cheap to pony up the cash to transport his deceased father's body for burial, stuck his Petra Bank (a/k/a Piggy Bank) for the $35,000 bill. As per Journal usual, this piece ends on an up-note:
They say they would arrest Mr. Chalabi if he returned to the kingdom, and he would be liable for the penalty assessed. But in an odd twist of Jordanian law, because Mr. Chalabi's absence had left him not legally entitled to a defense, upon his return he could mount a defense and in that way challenge the court ruling.

He says he has no plans to return.
I wonder why.
posted by Grady at 11:24 AM
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