Ahmad Chalabi — a one-time Pentagon favorite whose faulty intelligence about weapons of mass destruction helped pave the way for the Iraq war — was a secular politician groomed by his U.S. backers to replace Saddam Hussein. After falling out with the Americans, the MIT graduate has reinvented himself — again. He is now a top candidate in an alliance led by an Iranian-backed Shiite religious party.
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Ex-US Favorite Rises Again in Iraq Vote
