Topic: Ahmed Chalabi

Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi, who persuaded the United States of Saddam Hussein's weapons arsenal, has died at 71, Iraqi state media announced.

An Iraqi defector seeking to reunite with his girlfriend and a Jordanian banker fleeing corruption allegations duped the United States into invading Iraq.

A former national security adviser says the United States faces its biggest threat since the fear of nuclear war with the Soviet Union: Cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare.

Sequestration, or confiscating something of value, gave pause to reassess a U.S. defense budget that is now 46 percent of the entire world’s defense spending.

The Iraqi government violated the principles of the state constitution when it barred the vice president from leaving the country, a political party claimed.

Damascus and Tehran have thrown their weight behind Iyad Allawi to unseat Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in the March elections, sources said Wednesday.

The de-Baathification effort unsettling the political scene ahead of parliamentary elections in Iraq has made its way to the provincial level, officials said.

Iraqi lawmakers backed a measure introduced Wednesday by Deputy Prime Minister Rafi al-Issawi calling for a transparent parliamentary election in March.

Six people, including five from the entourage of Iraqi Shiite politician Ahmed Chalabi, were slain in a Baghdad suicide bombing attack, officials said.

U.S. officials have denied claims that U.S. Special Forces are already operating across the Iraqi border in Iran, but Seymour Hersh's claim that senior U.S. generals are opposing American airstrikes against Iran reflects very real divisions in the Pentagon and the Bush administration.