Pentagon protege humiliated as US and Iraqi police raid Baghdad villa
Luke Harding in Baghdad and Julian Borger in Washington Friday May 21, 2004 The Guardian
Ahmad Chalabi, the Pentagon's one-time protege, was humiliated yesterday when US officials and Iraqi police ransacked his private office, and even burst into his bedroom in his Baghdad villa.
"I was asleep. I told them to get out," Dr Chalabi, the controversial leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), said. "I am America's best friend in Iraq. If the coalition provisional authority finds it necessary to direct an armed attack against my home, you can see the state of relations between the CPA and the Iraqi people."
