[Shermy]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0%2C3604%2C314700%2C00.html

Then again, it could be Chalabi disinformation.

[Dog Gone]

The AP doesn't provide in the story how they know Iraq offered asylum. It's a naked assertion.

[jpl]

Chalabi may not be a saint, but I believe him more than I believe the anonymous, quasi-permanent Beltway bureacracy.