[steveegg]

Now why doesn't this little bit of news surprise me any?

[Jeff Head]

In the first Volume of the Dragon's Fury Series, which I originally wrote in 2001, and then updated in 2002, the real Chalabi has a fictional incarnation as Chaliberi.

Not an exact match by any means...and not really a major character in the book. But a tie to the present and a shadow of the real world while being a literary instrument that leads the story towards one of the major opposition character's (Hassan Sayeed's) vision of the world.

This news about the real life person parallels what the fictional character did in that first novel three years ago...except he did it as the first "President" of Iraq after our turn over of power.