Mithal Al-Alusi

Al-Arabiyya TV (the station of King Fahd's brother-in-law) has started the Iraqi political puppet campaign. Usually, it means a non-stop promotion of Iyad `Allawi (the former puppet prime minsiter/car bomber/Saddam's henchman/embezzler-in-Yemen/fabricator of an assassination attempt on his life in London). Today, they had a 30 minute interview with Mithal Al-Lusi. This guy is so popular that he is beaten--literally, as Joe Biden would say--by Iraqis anywhere he goes--although Thomas Friedman thinks highly of him because he loves Israel.