I too read that his wife is Russian--there's something fishy going on with him definitely. He's either being blackmailed, or his wife is being threatened, or perhaps someone in her family is. Or he was bought off, as it's been posted elsewhere that he took $400K from somebody for work on a documentary, I think re: Iraq.
I agree... and why would Iraqi TV refuse to put his address to the Iraqi Congress on TV if this was legit?