WASHINGTON, DC -- Bush administration planners again hinted that Ahmed Chalibi could be appointed as a new ruler, whom exhausted the search for a person who was both an Iraqi exile and a corporate crook.
    He needed to have an ethnic background that the Iraqi people could understand, and a corrupt business background that the Bush administration could understand, said Barbara Redson of the DC-based National Policy Council.
    "There are dual interests in mind -- can he show empathy for the rabble of Iraq, and does he know how to commit complex accounting fraud? He's going to be walking a tightrope."