I think its also of note that, as the article explains, he:

1. is scorned by most of America's national security establishment,
2 ostracised in the Arab world
3 has no support or poweer base in Iraq

4 is wanted in Jordan for stealing hundreds of millions of depositors' dollars from a bank he managed which collapsed

AND

5 that Chalabi, "more than any other person", had been the key supplier of faulty intelligence to the CIA about Iraq's purported "stockpiles" of biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction.

How did someone like that get to be placed by Bush in Iraq as the next head of government? He's a crook!