Who Was Ahmad Chalabi?
More on the divisive figure from the people who got to know him.
Episode Notes
In this bonus episode, Slow Burn’s host Noreen Malone and producer Jayson De Leon discuss Season 5. Then we’ll hear more about Ahmad Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress, through various interview clips that didn’t make it into the main episode, with journalists Janine di Giovanni, Asli Aydintasbas, and Jim Hoagland, and INC member Rend al-Rahim.
Mentioned in this episode:
Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War by Richard Bonin
“The Enemy of Our Enemy” by Janine di Giovanni, New York Times, Feb. 20, 2000
Production by Chau Tu and Sophie Summergrad.