The Hindu : Chalabi flown into Iraq

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Wednesday, Apr 09, 2003

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Chalabi flown into Iraq

London April 8. Ahmad Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress Opposition group and Pentagon's favourite to succeed the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, has been flown into southern Iraq by U.S. forces even as Britain is planning to appoint a senior army officer to act as deputy to Jay Garner, the former U.S. general appointed by the Pentagon to head an interim Iraqi authority.

Mr. Chalabi, a Shia exile, was said to be at the head of a 600-strong force called the Free Iraqi Fighters under the command of Gen. Tommy Franks, the U.S. commander. ``They will also take part in delivering humanitarian aid and maintaining law, order in areas liberated,'' the INC said. Mr. Chalabi's supporters in the Pentagon and the INC say he is a secular liberal who would be an ideal leader of a new Iraq.

— PTI

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