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I looked up Ahmad Al-Chalabi, who according to Riverbend, was one of the people involved with the new cabinet’s swearing in process (Riverbend 49). I choose to research Al-Chalabi because there was not much written about him in Riverbend’s blog. According to Wikipedia he is a sixty- three year old politician. Has served positions as 1^st Deputy prime minister, Oil minister, and Leader of Iraqi National Congress. He comes from a fairly wealthy family where he spent most of his life outside Iraq in both the United Kingdom and the United States. He received a degree from both MIT and University of Chicago. His reputation is quite suspicious at the time as he has embezzled 300 million dollars from a Jordan bank (Wikipedia).

Riverbend. Baghdad Burning. 1st ed . New York: First Feminist Press, 2005.

“Ahmed Chalabi .” Wikipedia . Wikipedia. 8 Apr 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Chalabi>.