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I thought they were going to arrest Chalabi. Has that changed?

If anyone knows the real story on Chalabi, I wish they'd let me know. As I recall, I really liked him when I first heard of him (possibly because I also heard our State Dept didn't want him having any power!). Then there were those charges about ties to Iran, and another story about his son. Then I saw (perhaps in the WSJ) that it was our State Dept and/or CIA that had engineered/contributed to false charges against him -- they felt he didn't show them the proper respect or something.

Anyway, that's how I recall what little I know. Please add.

I heard a short segment of Bill Bennett's "Morning in America" last week. IIRC, Steve Emerson (Jihad in America author) was Dr. Bennett's guest and they were discussing the Chalabi theories you mentioned. Emerson's bottom line: on the few occasions he actually met with Chalabi, he appeared to be a man who couldn't be trusted. Emerson didn't believe we set him up for the fall, but instead, considered him a corrupt seller of WMD fairy tales.