The diplomat thinks the USA is circulating such information to distract attention from its blundering Iraqi policies, through which tensions are skyrocketing in the country and the entire region. He calls on the occupation forces to urgently withdraw from Iraq and pass the helm to its nation.
The Chalabi controversy has taken an ever more unsavory turn despite all Iran may be saying as Jordan has come out with an official extradition claim. Asma Hadar, Minister of State, made a respective statement today, reports'the Petra news agency.
With his brother's complicity, Dr. Ahmad Chalabi, then President of the Jordanian-based Petra Bank, transferred more than 200 million US dollars from the bank to his overseas accounts in 1986. The Jordanian government had to compensate the embezzled fortune to depositors out of its own purse. A sequence of six trials of the early 1990s convicted Chalabi to hard labor for life, and his brother to 22 years' prison term. The huge swindler's sentence remains valid, pointed out the minister.
Dr. Chalabi is leader of the political party, Iraqi National Congress.
