Ahmed Chalabi

Dr. Ahmed Chalabi (born 1945) is part of a three-man leadership council for the Iraqi opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), which was created at the behest of the U.S. government for the purpose of fomenting the overthrow of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

Chalabi left Iraq in 1956 and has mostly lived in the U.S. and United Kingdom since that time. He was involved in organizing a resistance movement among Kurds in northern Iraq in the mid-1990s.

In 1977 he founded the Petra Bank in Jordan; after the bank's failure Chalabi was convicted and sentenced in absentia for bank fraud by a Jordanian court.[1] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/not_in_website/syndication/monitoring/media_reports/2291649.stm)