Iraqi Government

According to Sy Hirsch, in his book Chain of Command, Allawi has a shady background. It seems he is quite a thug. He has been reported to have been a former Baath party member, prior to Sadam's coming to power in 1979, and lost favor (for murky reasons)--actually he had a price put on his head when he was a European Baath party liaison. In Europe he had "blood on his hands"--apparently his job was to manage the getting rid of Baath party members who had fallen out of favor. Leave it to our amateur "nation builders" in the CIA, Executive Branch and Pentagon to pick another scumbag....And Chalabi was "their man in Baghdad" until then...ha ha ha ha...

Egan