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Ahmed Chalabi is one of the best known Iraqi opposition figures in the West.
As leader of the one of the foremost opposition movements, the Iraqi National 
Congress [INC], the 57-year-old former businessman has even been tipped by some 
analysts as a possible successor to Saddam Hussein.
A Shia Muslim born in 1945 to a wealthy banking family, Mr Chalabi left Iraq in 
1956 and has lived mainly in the USA and London ever since, except for a period 
in the mid-1990's when he tried to organise an uprising in the 
Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.

The venture ended in failure with hundreds of deaths. Soon after, the INC was 
routed from northern Iraq after Saddam's troops overran its base in Arbil. A 
number of party officials were executed and others - including Mr Chalabi - fled 
the country.
Chequered career
A seasoned lobbyist in London and Washington, who studied mathematics at Chicago 
University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr Chalabi is often 
described as a controversial figure, charismatic and determined but crafty and 
cunning at the same time.
" I am not seeking any positions. My job will end with the liberation of Iraq 
from Saddam's rule " 
Mr Chalabi has been accused by some opposition figures of using the INC to 
further his own ambitions.
There are also allegations of financial misdemeanours. In 1992, he was sentenced 
in absentia by a Jordanian court to 22 years in prison with hard labour for bank 
fraud after the 1990 collapse of Petra Bank, which he had founded in 1977.
Although he has always maintained the case was a plot to frame him by Baghdad, 
the issue was revisited later when the State Department raised questions about 
the INC's accounting practices. 
Cometh the man?
In recent interviews, Mr Chalabi has discounted the possibility he will take a 
role in any future government. 
"Personally, I will not run for any office, and I am not seeking any positions. 
My job will end with the liberation of Iraq from Saddam's rule," he is quoted as 
telling the German weekly Die Zeit.
He has called for a coalition government to transform the country into a 
democracy with a federal structure representing all ethnic groups. 
He has strong backing among some sectors of Congress and the Pentagon, but is 
thought to have little grassroots support in Iraq and a number of opposition 
groups have sought to distance themselves from the INC.
Mr Chalabi subscribed to the "three-city plan", which called for defectors to 
capture a number of key areas, isolating and surrounding Saddam.
" Not even qualified to run a grocery shop " 
Al-Watan - Qatar 

But the plan had little support from Arab governments, which said they would not 
allow Mr Chalabi to run a liberation army from their soil.
In 1998, the then US president, Bill Clinton, approved a plan to spend almost 
$100m to help the Iraqi opposition - principally the INC - to topple Saddam. 
But only a fraction of the money was ever spent, and the INC subsequently 
suffered leadership infighting. 
Mr Chalabi now says the movement is united. But many people are sceptical.
According to the Qatari newspaper Al-Watan, Mr Chalabi and his movement "are 
failures and are not even qualified to run a grocery shop".
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