Iyad `Allawi met with Elvis too. I read it in the New York Times. I never has any respect for Quislings, regardless of their religion, nationality, or ideolgoy. For this reason, and also because he was a Saddam's killer, a car bomber, and embezzler, I only have contempt for Iyad `Allawi. Whenever he talks to US media, he tells them fibs that he does not dare tell the Arab media. He loves to appear macho by telling them that he meets with insurgent leaders. In the Arabic press, he would only talk about meeting with tribal leaders, as he has recently done in Jordan, and many even boycotted the meeting (from the Dulaymi tribe). He never meets with insurgent leaders, and yet it is so easy to lie to the naive and ill-informed US journalists. Here a fan of Allawi (who doubles as New York Times reporter) admits: "But he appeared somewhat burdened by the hazards of the job. Outside his office in what used to be a reception room for Mr. Hussein's Ministry of Military Industrialization, the scene was a testament to a man under threat: heavily armed American bodyguards with cradled weapons, armored Mercedes-Benz limousines, an American Bradley fighting vehicle with a mounted machine gun, electrically operated barriers, high concrete blast walls and circling American attack helicopters."