Iraq

Ahmed Chalabi was right that Saddam Hussein had to be removed Chibli Mallat The Guardian, 10 November 2015 The late deputy prime minister provoked many passions, and I disagreed with him over the invasion, but Iraq’s dictatorship had to end. (PDF version) ‘Chalabi holds a special place among those…

‘A page of history has turned'. Chalabi knew very well that Iraq, even before Syria, was a victim of the hostility between Washington and Tehran, says Gareth Smyth Gareth Smyth, 3 November 2015 (PDF version) Ahmad Chalabi in Tehran in December 2003. Photograph: Vahid Salemi/AP In November 2005 I…