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              Ahmad Chalabi, Key Proponent of Iraq War, Dies at 71

   by VOA News

   Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi, who helped push for the 2003 U.S.
   invasion of Iraq, died Tuesday of a heart attack.


   Lawmakers and state television said Chalabi died in Baghdad where the
   71-year-old was serving as chairman of the parliament's finance
   committee.


   Chalabi spent most of his life in Britain and in the United States
   where he earned a master's degree and doctorate.


   His U.S. ties were most prominent in the run-up to the war that knocked
   longtime leader Saddam Hussein from power.  Chalabi provided the U.S.
   with intelligence alleging Hussein's government had weapons of mass
   destruction, but he lost favor after that information was later proven
   false.


   He staged a political comeback in Iraq, emerging as a possible prime
   minister candidate during 2010 elections, but was unable to secure
   enough support to earn the post.
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