(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) The Iraqi parliament member Ahmad Chalabi, a key player in the lead-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, has died early Tuesday of a heart attack.
According to an Iraqi official source, Chalabi, who was a veteran Iraqi politician and the head of parliament's financial panel, died in his Kadhimiya residence in Baghdad and he was 70.
He was a long-time opposition figure dedicated to overthrowing the government of Saddam Hussein and he was wanted by the Jordanian Judiciary in the charges of the Petra Bank scandal.
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