It’s very hard to know what’s really going on with Ahmed Chalabi, although the possibility that he’s working with Iran can no longer be completely dismissed. But LGF reader “Oktober” noticed a curious discrepancy between what’s reported in this article (typically slanted against the US): Iraqi Police Raid Home of Pentagon Ally …

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police backed by American soldiers raided the home and offices of Ahmad Chalabi, a prominent Iraqi politician once groomed by the Pentagon as a possible replacement for Saddam Hussein.

The operation confirmed a growing rift between the United States and the former exile just six weeks before the return of Iraqi sovereignty. Two members of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, of which Chalabi is a key member, said they were considering resigning in protest over the raid.

“We are friends of America,” Chalabi told a news conference several hours after he said police woke him up at 10:30 a.m. Thursday and entered his bedroom with pistols. “But when America treats its friends in this way, then they are in big trouble.” …

A portrait of Chalabi hanging on the wall in his home had a bullet hole in the forehead.

… and this photograph, which may show the same portrait mentioned above (unless Chalabi had more than one picture of himself hanging around):

The glass in a portrait of Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi is seen smashed after Iraqi police and US troops raided his head office in Baghdad, confiscating files and computers.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

What bullet hole?

And here’s another one with no bullet hole.