IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO U.S. DENOUNCES CHALABI RAID

Shorter Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer interview with Rend Al-Rahim, Iraqi ambassador to the United States:

Wolf asks Al-Rahim for a reaction to the CPA contention that this (the raid on Chalabi's home and Iraqi National Congress offices) was an Iraqi decision. The ambassador says that's hard to swallow by the Iraqi people. We are under occupation, we know that the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) is the controlling authority in the country. The Iraqi Governing Council not given any advance notification, and passed a resolution denouncing the action as politically motivated.

She says the way the raid was conducted demonstrates incredible disrespect for the IGC.