10 hours from now, Chalabi will be a part of Iraqi goverment. Someone in the temporary Iraqi goverment was talking about arresting him for libel, which is a typical Arab dictatorship-stlye maneuver.
Also I believe they announced Chalabi would be arrested only after a news story came out saying that Chalabi was gaining in popularity and could garner more support come election time.
Some of the Iraqi blogs have some pretty caustic comments about about the guy making the accusations against Chalabi...
But I don't know what the facts are!!!!!!!
snip..."On Friday, the flight became an issue in Iraq's U.S.-backed election when Defense Minister Hazim Al-Shaalan threatened to arrest a political rival.[Chalabi]"
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The Defense Minister was apparently involved in some military contract deal which didn't have the Iraqi interim government's approval... and al-Shalaan didn't like being called on it so he started threatening people with arrest for saying he had something to do with it.