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Sat 05 May 2004Chalabi raid was wrong - Iraqi leaderA leading Iraqi politician says US authorities were wrong to raid Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi's headquarters and accused them of trying to hijack Iraq's political future.Iraqis were paying the price of a year of mistakes by US officials following the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Governing Council member Mr Mahmoud Othman said yesterday.