Ahmad Chalabi, center, walks through the the city of Najaf to check, he says, the ceasefire between U.S. forces and Shiite militia members Friday June 4, 2004. Shunned by his former American backers, Ahmad Chalabi is reinventing himself, bowing out of high-power bargaining over a new Iraqi government to attempt to play the role of peacemaker in this holy Shiite city. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)