Chalabi Watch----it gets curiouser as reports now surface that U.S. contractors toting guns were on the raid too. This flies in the face of the "White House" version that this was strictly an Iraq deal. The "White House" better get their act together by tomorrow AM or the Left will be (rightly) all over this. It's clear that the U.S. is involved.

eight armed American contractors paid by a US State Department program went on the raid, directing and encouraging the Iraqi policemen who, witnesses say, ripped out computers, turned over furniture and smashed photographs.

Some of the Americans helped themselves to baklava, apples and diet soda from Mr Chalabi's refrigerator, sitting in a garden outside to enjoy their looted snacks, according to members of Mr Chalabi's staff.

The prior quote is from the Baltimore Sun (requires that stupid registration) but reprinted in the Australian The Age.