Arrest Warrent Issued for Ahmad Chalabi.

Iraqi Judge Issue arrest warrent for Ahmad Chalabi today. This is breaking so there is not much information.

BAGHDAD, Iraq � Iraq has issued an arrest warrant for Ahmad Chalabi, a former governing council member, on money laundering charges and another for Salem Chalabi, the head of Iraq's special tribunal, on murder charges, Iraq's chief investigating judge said Sunday.

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It's about time. When they catch him, they oughtta send his slimy butt back to Jordan. (He was tried and convicted in absentia for embezzling. The punishment was 20 years.) I betcha he'd never get out alive now.

It was expected based on this August 4th article:

August 4, 2004 "Sydney Morning Herald" -- Baghdad: Iraq's top criminal court is investigating allegations that Salem Chalabi, the organiser of the war crimes tribunal that will try Saddam Hussein, threatened an official days before the man was assassinated.

Mr Chalabi, whose uncle is the former Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi, is accused of attempting to intimidate Haitham Fadhil, a Finance Ministry official who was investigating the Chalabi family's property holdings when he was killed in May.

Salem Chalabi, 41, denied any involvement in the murder and dismissed the allegations as designed to remove him as executive director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal, where officials of the former regime will be tried for crimes against humanity.

The investigation began after the shooting of Haitham Fadhil, a Ministry of Finance inspector, on May 28. He was preparing a report that concluded that members of the Chalabi family and their political party, the Iraqi National Congress, had illegally seized hundreds of pieces of property after the US invasion last year.

The property included mansions, former government offices and agricultural land, a source familiar with the investigation said.

After the US invasion, several political parties in Iraq moved into premises that previously belonged to the former government, but the INC was seen by some to have been the most aggressive.

Mr Fadhil "was trying to get back those properties that belonged to the people", a source said. "He told his wife and a friend that he had received a lot of threats from Mr Salem Chalabi, who told him, 'You will not stay for long. We will get rid of you'," the source said.

Witnesses told Iraqi investigators that Mr Fadhil feared for his life and had given a copy of his report to another person for safekeeping. That copy is in the possession of the Central Criminal Court of Iraq, whose officials want to question Salem Chalabi, the source said.

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Apparently he's into counterfieiting money along with his nephew. ECK, do you have any links to his criminal past?

Here is some more information

Police found the counterfeit money along with old dinars in Ahmad Chalabi's house during a May raid, he said.

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