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Yikes. I'm not even seeing lists of potential candidates and their backgrounds. When someone is considered for a position in the Palestinian Authority (for example) there is usually a lot of background information out there to be had. I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of these choices in Iraq were pretty sketchy.

As for Chalabi - it might be to his advantage that he's been away from the scene a bit, yet still has some undercover allies within the Baathist party. I doubt the UN will ever recognize him as the leader of Iraq. That's a problem.

Fox News has started bringing on analysts to talk about the troika option I mentioned above... so I guess that vision isn't totally dead yet.