BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi said on Wednesday meetings in Washington with senior U.S. officials this month would prove he had not been frozen out by his former mentors over information used to justify the Iraq war.
Chalabi, whose Iraqi National Congress (INC) will lead a secular coalition in the Dec. 15 parliamentary election, leaves soon for his first official visit to the United States in over a year, since a public falling out with the Bush administration over its allegation that he passed U.S. secrets to Iran.