Chalabi says ‘blame CIA, not me’ about WMD

NEW YORK: Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi says he is tired of being blamed for misleading the United States about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and points the finger instead at the CIA in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” to be aired on Sunday. Chalabi, who heads the Iraqi National Congress exile group and has close ties to the Bush administration, says the CIA should have done a better job analysing information received from defectors he steered their way. “This is a ridiculous situation,” says Chalabi, who still maintains that weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq. He said the CIA knew defectors can be biased and that even the press was saying “‘defectors have an axe to grind, don’t believe them.’“ —Reuters

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