But being a wily survivor, Chalabi apparently decided that after embarrassing his US backers so badly on the question of Iraq's WMD and realising that he was about as popular as the occupation itself, he had better make some new friends. Now he is playing the role of a populist Moses to President Bush's Pharaoh, chanting in Baghdad last week to "let my people go".
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He says his aides are innocent of spying for Iran but won't turn themselves in because "there is no justice in Iraq. There is Abu Ghraib prison."

So, was Uncle Sam played for a sucker by Iran, the fulcrum of what Bush has called the "axis of evil"? Was the US manoeuvred into unseating Iran's hated enemy, Saddam, whom Washington backed in the 1980s against Iran's holy warriors? We'll see as the scandal unfolds.

But even if this outrage proves true, it is unlikely that anyone high up in Washington will be held responsible for coddling Chalabi. After all, nobody of any stature has yet been held accountable for the missing WMD in Iraq, the prison torture scandal or the poor planning for the occupation. Certainly not President Bush, who is touring the US bragging that the obvious disaster in Iraq is actually a great victory for the free world.