BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ahmad Chalabi has been called many things, few of them flattering: a crook, a Pentagon stooge and a trickster who fooled Americans into invading Iraq with false intelligence and then sold U.S. secrets to Iran.
The urbane and wealthy banker rejects all those barbs, none of which has deterred him from pursuing his political ambitions via a convoluted course worthy of his mathematician's training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chicago.
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