AHMED CHALABI

Early day motion 134, tabled 18 May 2005 by Harry Cohen (Labour). Signed by 14 members.

That this House is appalled at the appointment of Ahmed Chalabi as a deputy prime minister and oil minister in Iraq; notes his multi-million pound criminal record in Jordan and his role in spreading falsehoods including untruths about weapons of mass destruction, which led to the war and deaths of very many Iraqi citizens; further notes that he intends to use his ministerial position to privatise Iraq's oil, thereby robbing the Iraqi people of yet more of their oil resources; further notes that he acts as a block to former Ba'athists returning to help administer Iraq and continues to press for the death penalty for Saddam Hussein, thereby continuing to fuel the insurgency violence; and believes that the lives of British troops should not be put at risk for the promotion of such policies and such a person.

Signatures by party: Labour 8, Liberal Democrat 6.