The Road to the Iraq War | 1. The Exile
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Challaby, a Man Who Was Plugged Into a Rock
Achmed chalaby was working with the c i a to bring democracy and military power into the modern age. He had been cultivating the press for decades, cozying up to foreign correspondence in lebanon and jordan. In another life, you could see challaby as a silicon valley founder, failing, pivoting, telling a story owhe was still going to change the world. But he parleyed his debacce in rock into a narrative of a rocky freedom fighter who is betrayed by the c ia.
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