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Should I pursue a career in software development or network security ? I am a computer engineer . I was working in software development for past 3 to 4 years. I have done my bachelor's in Computer engineering and my master's in networks and communications. I was working in software development until my company had this idea that they needed ISMS ISO 27001 to improve their client base so they also asked me to start implementing ISO 27001 alongwith my software development activities. my overall CV looks like this COMPUTER SKILLS Languages •Visual C++, GCC, JAVA, Jbuilder, Jdeveloper, JSP, Coldfusion, PHP, Keil C51 , VB.NET, ASP.NET Software •Database: SQL Server 2000 , Oracle 10g , MySQL , PostgreSQL •Platforms: Microsoft Windows XP, Linux Open Source ERP systems •Compiere ERP, Sequoia ERP, NeoGia ERP Open Source Content Management Systems •DotNetNuke 3.0 CMS Mathematical Tools •Matlab Security Tools •OpenSSL Simulation Tools •NS2 EXPERIENCE Software Engineer2006–Present Green Systems Pvt Ltd •Primary responsibilities include designing, development and implementation of secure software and web systems •Developed and tested USB security module for ERP system that ensured that a USB can be opened on only the system for which it is authenticated •Developed online hiring portal www.techandresearch.com •Developed and tested LAN based monitoring system for the software to ensure that all client on the LAN had the software running •Involved in deployment and maintenance of in house developed ERP system •Currently Also involved in deployment of ISO 27001 system throughout the organization Software Developer2005-2006 Digital Research Labs Pvt. Ltd. •Primary responsibilities include designing and development of software and web based systems •Developed Software Security module for E-office project that allowed user to put permission on folders and manage files and provide group access to appropriate users. •Developed a secure LAN based mailing system module for the E-office project •Also Involved in various web projects Web Applications Developer2004-2005 BahriaSoft •Primary responsibilities include designing and development of software and web based systems •Developed and maintained BahriaSoft’s web portal bahria.net. •Also involved in various software projects EDUCATION Bahria University2001-2005 Professional Engineering and Technical Training Services2007Islamabad, Pakistan •Oracle 10G Database administration and Management Course Center For Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE), UET Taxila 2007-2008 •M.S. Computer Engineering (Network and communications) oComputer Network Security oComputer System Security oMobile Networks oWireless Technology and Mobile Systems oNetwork and System Programming oDSP Software systems Design oAdvanced Computer Architecture oLinear Systems And Control Lahore University Of Management Sciences2008 •Workshop on Software Quality Management Business Beam Pvt LTd. 2008 ISO 27001 for implementers After seeing the above CV. Do you think I have a mind for software development or would I do well in network security? and do you think it is a good CV?

Any Bucknell University students? How do you get to Bucknell University via train from NJ? I was invited to an event that consists of a career fair and professional networking opportunity. It is at Bucknell University; a sports fair. I am from NJ and familiar with getting to Philly via train no problem. But I am very unsure of how to get to Lewisburg, PA via train from Philly. I need to figure out a way there in advance or I cannot attend. Can you get to Lewisburg, PA via SEPTA?? Please help, I am not familar with the area. Thanks. I read somewhere it takes several hours to get there from Philly...is this true?

Just recently got out of the military and want to get into network/internet security,but don't have any skills? Hi, I'm 28 years old and just left the military a few years ago and have always loved computers. I would like to go for a career in network/internet security and perhaps work at a corporation protecting their system. What should my first step be? I'm currently taking online classes at American Military University for my BS in information systems security, but I'm afraid that an employer will look at my degree and throw it in the trash. I have heard that most companies look for experienced network pros. I have over 40k in GI bill benefits and I don't want to waste it on an online university for nothing. I live in NJ and haven't really found a school that offers this program as a degree; only certificate training. I'm not just looking for a degree, but also knowledge and hands on.

Nuclear Physics, Electron Microscopy or Cisco Networking? Hi, I have a question for you guys, because I believe that the advice of some people can help me to get the right way. My target is Nuclear Physics, but, I wish to get a hands on training career first (2 years only) and, after that, to continue mi education to be a Physicist. The careers that I am talking are the Electron Microscopy Program and Cisco Networking Program, I need to get advice of people working in both areas if is possible, because, in the future, I need to work at night in one of them to attend classes in the day time in the Physics Program in a University. What do I need to know is in what of them I have more alternative to work at night, because if it's hard to find a job in the night time in one of them, I will enroll on the another one. Thank you for your time, All your answers are welcome. Thank you franz...

What are some recommended prerequisites to become a computer network administrator? I am a Junior in High School now and graduation is coming up within a year so it is definitely time to start thinking, I already know I want to go into network administration, for those who don't know it means I would create, run, and maintain a network of linked computers in a setting of a university, business or school district, however I am unsure of exactly what I would need to pursue that career, is a degree common? Or some form of special training or certificate? Obviously every place has different standards for what they want but I just want a general idea of how much schooling I would need after high school.

Any IT people out there? I am going to school in the summer and hope to start on my Microsoft Professional Certificate, and also eventually getting my LAN Specialist Certificate, do you think this will help me get an entry level position in the IT field as opposed to getting an associates? id like to be tech sup post.. Please give me your advice.. Thanks Here are details.. LAN TECH CERT This certificate prepares students for entry-level positions as a data communication specialist in the information technology profession. Common career titles include LAN specialist, LAN system administrator, LAN design specialist, LAN engineer, and many others. The LAN Technician certificate prepares students for rewarding careers at the forefront of the information technological revolution. Students will examine the installation, maintenance, repair, and design of local area networks. Students receive hands-on training in network operating systems, user administration, network security, and LAN switching and bridging design. This program also helps students prepare for N+, CAN, MCP, and CCNA certification. Graduates of this program possess a wide range of product knowledge as well as hands-on experience in hardware and software installation and support. This program is intended to lead to employment. If you are considering transferring to a four-year college or university to obtain a bachelor's degree using the courses from this program, make an appointment with an academic advisor to review your options. MICROSOFT CERT This program is designed for individuals just beginning training to pursue a career in Microsoft LAN (local area network) management, as well as those already working in industry who need to upgrade their skills for on-the-job tasks, new supervisory responsibilities or career growth. This program is intended to lead to employment. If you are considering transferring to a four-year college or university to obtain a bachelor's degree using the courses from this program, make an appointment with an academic advisor to review your options. Nature of the Work—This program prepares you for an entry-level position in the information technology field. Graduates of this program may administer, install, maintain and troubleshoot data communication systems. The program includes operating systems, server, directory, and TCP/IP Microsoft introduction and the integration of the Internet in the corporate enterprise network. Job Related Titles—LAN Technician, Cisco service representative, Technical support specialist, Network or computer system administrator, Computer support specialists I think I will work on the certificates, then once I can get in the door of an IT position, work towards my degree... Just want to get in the door so I can learn while working towards a Degree. Hoping Certificates can get me in the door though!

Networking Jobs - What is required and how do you get experience? I have the crazed interest in computer networking; I love tinkering with computers and feel that this is the role for me. However, what is the job realm like for this type of career? What is generally required to work as a networking engineer. Is it stable? Is the income decent? My University, nor do any near school, offer network training etc. There are, however, a few tech schools that offer training in Cisco etc. Would something like this be a good idea? Is it possible to find work with mere certs like CCNA and no working experience? Thanks!

University of Phoenix IT degree? Has anyone been able to get a good job/career in the IT industry with a degree from phoenix university? I was looking over their coursework and find it odd that there is basically no Cisco training/coursework at all? Seems kind of fishy, how could one get an IT job in fields like networking with no experience of Cisco routers and such?

SAP Career? I have Pre University education and one year diploma from APTECH. After Pre University enrolled for Engineering and had to discontinue because of acute financial issues at home. After which started working as Software Tutor. Then again pursued A+, N+ and MCSE certifications. Also I am now pursuing graduation with due its complete in 2008. I am 34 Years old. I do carry experience in System hardware and Networking includes managing Exchange server, ISA server Firewall etc,. Currently I am serving for a company as System Admin. Till now I do carry 4+ years of experience in the field of Hardware & Networking. Also, I have taken formal training on SAP basis. I am really fascinated towards SAP basis administration, I want to pursue SAP Basis as the career for my future career growth, After completing graduation this year, Can I try my luck in SAP basis ? Please do guide me.

An advice please? Hi, I have a question for you guys, because I believe that the advice of some people can help me to get the right way. My target is Nuclear Physics, but, I wish to get a hands on training career first (2 years only) and, after that, to continue mi education to be a Physicist. The careers that I am talking are the Electron Microscopy Program and Cisco Networking Program, I need to get advice of people working in both areas if is possible, because, in the future, I need to work at night in one of them to attend classes in the day time in the Physics Program in a University. What do I need to know is in what of them I have more alternative to work at night, because if it's hard to find a job in the night time in one of them, I will enroll on the another one. Thank you for your time, All your answers are welcome.

Just joining the IT field? Hello, I am currently a senior here at San Francisco State University with a major in Information Systems. I am debating between either career in system, network, or database administration (I guess whichever I could get into) although networking has always appealed to me. My question is, the more and more I begin to search for jobs the more I realize....I don't know sh*t ha. I see the descriptions and they list a lot of things that you should know ... I guess what my question is, is do they expect you to actually know *everything* or will they train you in most of it? How did some of you working in the IT field get your start?

Why Does Nothing Ever Go as Planned? Lifes a Bitch Than You Die, so gone and Get High Cus you Never Know When? I am 23 years old getting my life started and the greatest lesson i've learn so far is that my life sucks. Where to start. I personally think i was doomed from the start or maybe i just being negative right now because im so depressed. At age 18 senior year in college my grades were never that great i had like a C avg. I was smart but my whole life i moved around so school bored me. Only joy i ever really got was from smoking weed and hanging out. It gave me a liberation from the social phobia i suffer from. Dealing with always being judged and scared to say this or that because of other peoples opinions really took a toll on me. I guess i defined myself by others interpretations of me. Always dressed nice and etc but none of that matters. Lol i always wanted to be a rapper though maybe i should of stuck with that, got to do some shows and record a little bit but during my first year in college i focused so much on that i became delusional. I spent my freshman year in my apt smoking weed and writing raps. I was scared to go to class because i hated walking by people or people stopping to talk to me. Granted i was popular because i am handsome i guess and me and my friends won the college talent show but still it bothered me doing small talk, it seem so fake and pointless. So i flunked out of college my first year. Sad thing about it was i never really partied crazy and the work wasnt anything too much for me it was just i was scared of society and what it thinks of me, so i stayed in my apt. On my way back home i get into a car accident which my car flips 3times and my bestfriend at the time flys out the window. I made it out alive without a scratch on me. I owed it all to "God" because i said "Lord Please Protect Me" right before the collusion. I was so shook and superstitious of what happen that i didnt even bother trying to get any money out of the accident. I was just happy my friend and I were still alive, he's probably still sitting on checks till this day. Me on the other hand is a different story. So i get back home and i do this rapping thing full time and go to school part time staying with my parents. Everything was going well i hooked up with some people and we formed a record label did some shows and met some celebs it was pretty cool. I met the love of my life during that time also and of course i was smoking weed but idk seems like everything was going smooth. I was comfortable with the community college there and was making Great Grades 3.4 avg. I even transferred schools to a sister college of a university i wanted to attend. Than while i was going to school there my mom wanted me to get a full time job and go to school. I wasn't able to juggle both. Plus the job was me working with the handy cap and i didnt feel comfortable being the only blk person there. Either way my grades fell horrible and i lose the job because i would show up late trying to scram study time and homework before my shift. I was 19 going on 20 during the time and my moms told me I would have to join the military because i was too old to live with her any longer and i needed to make it on my own. So i ended up joining to the Air Force even though i prayed and prayed and prayed that it was the right decession and for the Lords protection. Odd thing is it was 06/06/06 when i first went to the MEPs to be processed in. Spooked me a little. lol either way i got in the Air Force wen through basic barely, the 6wks that felt like 6months in jail. During that time i was healthy and fit, also smarter due to the technical training i received for my chosen career field of computer science. My reading comperhension jumped incredibly i read 30 books in 6months once i reached my first Duty Station. I-Nosc East. They sent me to the most important network security center in the cyber world of the Air Force. I took it for granted maybe it was due to my lack of training and computer literacy. I was basically the phone secretary there. When i arrived in 2007 i was told i would be placed and trained in Boundary Protection/FireWall Network Security. When i left in 2008 i was still answering phones as a secretary and knew just as much as i knew when i arrived it was a dissappointment. I felt like they wanted me to fail while i was there, We had these things called Career Development Courses, i had 7 books and the avg person usually fails them when they take their end of course test. Well when i got there everyone who was around my rank failed besides 1 person. But i was told if I failed mines i would be degraded from my careerfield and placed as a cook?!?! Even though my fellow airmen at the time were going on their 3turns trying to pass these test. Needless to say i passed mine with an 88, i was proud of myself but i was alone on that one. I was told it wasnt good enough because the airman before me got a 98. Funny when i was told for the past year it didnt matter what i scored aslong as i passed. Anyway I was free from my CDCs and I was rea

please help how can I change this resume...what job should i look for? After reading about the kind of position you are looking to fill, I am confident that my work ethic and past experience makes me an ideal candidate for this career. I am looking for a career that is challenging and stable with room to grow with the company. I’m young with experience which is beneficial, because I have a great desire to enhance the talent I already possess. I will bring to your company a broad range of skills, including: • Interpersonal relationship skills • A strong desire to learn • Great verbal and written communication skills • Ability to manage various tasks at once • Past experience in sales I would welcome the opportunity to further discuss this position with you. If you have any questions or would like to schedule an interview, please contact me by phone at (909)319-6078 or respond to me by e-mail at jnwillard@yahoo.com. I have enclosed my resume for your review, and I have references available upon request. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Sincerely, James Willard Objective Seeking a position in which I can use my work experience, focused education, analytical ability, communication Skills, and strong work ethic. Skills Financial Ratio AnalysisFinancial Report CreationSpreadsheet Usage Oral/Written PresentationsMulti-Tasking ProjectsSpecial Projects Employee TrainingPersonnel SupervisionSales Skills Clear CommunicationBudget Cost ControlsSoftware Knowledge Problem Solving AbilityInterpersonal CommunicationAttention to Detail Experience 2006-Present Empire LendingWest Covina, CA Account Executive * Analyzed borrowers’ repayment ability, degree of leverage, and collateral strength using financial ratios. * Supervised the underwriting quality and regulatory compliance of an aggressively growing loan pipeline. * Managed multiple projects simultaneously, achieving objectives under time and resource constraints. * Participated in a variety of real estate-related committees which focused on market and industry trends. * Trained, reviewed, mentored, and supervised a team of new sales staff and sales support personnel. * Prospected, marketed, and closed mortgage loans while assuring accuracy and client confidentiality. * Successfully built a referral network of real estate brokers, attorneys, builders, and accountants. * Pro-actively contacted existing clients to determine relationship strength and retain future business. Education/Training * Graduate, Citrus Community College (Glendora, CA), AS, Business Studies, 6/07. * Familiar with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Internet. * Current Student, University of La Verne, Business/Finance Major, began 9/07. * Graduate, Bonita High School (La Verne, CA), College Prep Focus, 6/05 Civic * Volunteer, Various Community and School Activities Client references available upon request.

whats wrong with my resume? i have been applying for jobs for the last 3 months and i have not been called for an interview, so i am guessing its because of my resume, can anyone please give me some advice please. this is my resume though i changed the companies that i worked for, and the name of the cities. Skills ________________________________________ Languages ?HTML ?JAVA Operating Systems ?Microsoft windows 98-2000-xp-vista-7 ?Linux ?Mac osSoftware ? Software Adobe Photoshop ?Adobe Illustrator ?Macromedia Freehand ?Adobe Premier ?Microsoft office suiteDatabase ? Database Access ?Microsoft Excel Language spoken ?English ?Spanish OBJECTIVE ________________________________________ To utilize my interpersonal and technical skills in a networking or IT position on a long-term career growth. Education ________________________________________ Computer Science, Bachelor of ScienceIn progress some State University, savanna, Georgia Focused on object-oriented design Adobe Photoshop Certification Adobe Illustrator Certification Experience ________________________________________ Techjuly 2007 - present company, savanna, Georgia ?Resulting in numerous raises and promotions ?Trained new and existing sale staff in on selling strategies, and product knowledge ?Set up new technologies ?Diagnosed and repaired personal computers leading to a lot of experience with data lost, malware, network and hardware troubleshot. Brothers Cafe Columbus, Georgia ?Fixed and maintained a network consisting of 15 computers networkJuly 2011 ? Oc tuber 2011 Miami, Florida ?Maintained 2800 cisco routers and 2950 switches in the automobile industry ?Diagnosed and repaired the dealer computers ?Created server access accounts for the dealer representatives ?Worked with windows server 2003 and 2008

A question about my job resume.................? I was talking to a career consultant.......... and he told me my resume is "fine for applying for jobs online, but most job openings are unadvertised positions that you find through networking....................and quite frankly, I would rate your resume 2 out of 10." What's wrong with my resume? Why did he give it such a bad rating? This is my resume: Professional Profile Organized Human Resources Professional with strong problem-solving skills, utilizing acquired education and experience in professional settings. Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite with an average typing speed of approximately 80 words per minute. Strong analytical skills with high-level spreadsheet knowledge. Proven strengths in completing work efficiently in a fast-paced environment. Dedicated, efficient, team-player who is dependable and responsible. Work Experience Human Resources Manager 1998-2008 General Electric, Cleveland, Ohio •Introduced new employee orientation and individualized training resulting in a 97% satisfaction record •Managed compensation and benefits for over 550 employees •Conducted extensive recruiting •Supervised employee development •Controlled oversight of all staff performance and performance evaluation •Established training programs for staff in regards to all aspects of workplace performance and professional development •Implemented supervisory training on management techniques •Administered H.R. deliverables to meet management needs •Manages safety program •Conducted exit interviews •Resolved problems relating to employee relations Human Resources Assistant 1997-1998 Think-A-Move, Beachwood, Ohio •Recruited new employees •Evaluated and trained new employees Receptionist 1995- 1996 Valtronic USA, Solon, Ohio •Assisted employees with heavy workloads allowing projects to be completed by their deadlines •Maintained and updated a large series of organized invoices •Addressed customer service needs in a complicated environment •Conducted long-distance business using telecommunications Education Chicago State University 1997 Chicago, Illinois Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management

Will there be a large exodus of primary care doctors soon? According to the Clinton news network, almost half want out. http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/17/primary.care.doctors.study/index.html The vast majority of doctors do not recommend medicine as a career. The primary reason is that malpractice suits make the job not worthwhile. An opposition to the health care overhaul is a significant ancillary reason. Could the large number of malpractice suits be a sign that our universities have turned out a maximum of people that have the aptitude to be competent physicians? Certainly it takes more than just training-it takes ability. Or is it a sign that doctors are rushed too much now days to do a good job? The shortage of primary care physicians already shows that 70 percent are maxed out on patients. Half want to quit but don't merely because they are not adequately qualified for another career. They are, however, discouraging people from choosing medicine as a career-they are not happy. "People who have insurance can't find a doctor, so suddenly we are going to give insurance to a whole bunch of people who haven't had it, without increasing the number of physicians?" he says. "It's going to be a problem."

Advice on which ROTC to join for commissioning? Hey, I want to become an officer with fixed-wing aviation, securing computer networks, military intelligence, or infantry if I gain the courage (I would go to the Marine Corps). What ROTC do you think I should be a part of at Texas A&M University? I want to commission into the military and do something for my country, and make it my career (25+ years). I made a list of pros and cons, but I'm still very unsure. I know the final decision is mines, but I just wanted some advice. Thanks for reading. U.S. Navy +Pros -Travel -Love the sea -Great on education -More aircraft than the Air Force -Lots of tradition/politics/etc. -Best Technical Training +Cons -Can't do Information Warfare out of ROTC -Aviation and Surface Warfare are all I'm interested in for Unrestricted Line Officer U.S. Marine Corps +Pros -"The Few, The Proud" -Leadership Development -Travel, I think -Lots of tradition +Cons -Under the Department of the Navy -Usually train at the other branches facilities U.S. Air Force +Pros -Chance to fly the F-22, F-35B, C-17, or C-5. -Able to get into Information Warfare/Military Intelligence straight of out ROTC -Best educational push -"...73% can't get in, then they enlist in the Army..." -All Airmen have a dorm for themselves on-base +Cons -Who really likes being in the Air Force -Very overmanned -Only 1% are pilots/navigators -Lots of other officers -Low promotional oppurtunities U.S. Army +Pros -largest military branch -been a part of the Army JROTC -so many jobs -good promotional oppurtunities +Cons -no jets and very little fixed-wing aircraft, I don't want to fly a helicopter very much

Please guide me. I want to pursue CCIE? Hi, I am Ashish. I need guidance for pursuing my career in cisco line. Please guide me as i have no else to help me out with my queries. I have done my 12th. I was doing my mettalurgy engineering but as it was taking too much time to complete i dropped out & changed my major to BCA. I am doing Distance Learning BCA from Sikkim Manipal University(SMU). I am in my 2nd semester now. I have certifications in CCNA, MCP(server-2003) & Hardware & Networking. Currently i am pursuing MCSE track & will be completing RHCE with certification this march. I want to end up being a CCIE. I have doubts & no one to guide me. Please Guide me. * if i don't have any job experience & if i be a CCIE then what package can i expect? * if i only take the ccie training program & not the certification then what are the job opportunity the expected salary package to get? Thank you, Waiting in anticipation. Ashish. L

PROFESSIONAL JOB RECRUITERS PLEASE CRITIQUE MY RESUME.? Please critique my resume. Anything will help. John Smith 78 XYZ Avenue (123)456-7891 San Francisco, CA 94124 Career Summary Seeking an entry level Marketing position which will enable me to apply my educational background and work experience to the growing success of the company EDUCATION B.A. in Business Management Economics, June 2009 University of XYZ, XYZ PROFESSIONAL SKILLS  Proficient in Excel 2007, Word 2007 and Photoshop CS3  In-depth knowledge of marketing concepts and strategies through relevant marketing course work  Creative and able to identify current trends for marketing and advertisement  Excellent written and oral communication skills  Ability to multi-task and adapt to fast paced environments  Work well independently or in a team-setting EXPERIENCE (07/07 – present) Freelance Marketing Consultant, Self-employed, San Francisco, CA • Design business cards, promotional flyers and price lists for family-owned and operated salon business • Maintain updated content and images for website • Review online customer feedback and escalate issues to management for salon improvements (04/09 – 06/09) Marketing Intern, Barrios Unidos, City, CA • Designed the company’s official business card and promotional flyers for advertisement • Researched new leads through the Internet • Performed email marketing functions through creation of email ads and sending emails to prospective clients (09/05 – 06/09) Computer Consultant Instructional Computing, City, CA • Researched and troubleshot complex application issues • Provided one-on-one application training for lab students • Assisted students in computer setup and logins • Enforced lab rules and regulations to ensure equipment operability and cleanliness • Safeguarded equipment against student vandalism and/or theft • Escalated non-functional hardware issues to management • Maintained and order lab supply and computer hardware inventory (07/08 – 09/08) Sales Cashier, IMPARK Parking City, CA • Collected parking fees from SF Giants staff and affiliate partners • Maintained high customer experience and satisfaction through providing a professional and positive demeanor at all times • Collaborated and worked efficiently with peers and Area Managers to reduce long customer wait-time and traffic during parking peak hours (07/07 – 12/07) Sales Associate Banana Republic City, CA • Ensure that each customer receives outstanding service by providing a friendly environment, which includes greeting and acknowledging every customer, maintaining solid product knowledge and all other aspects of customer service. • Maintain an awareness of all promotions and advertisements. • Performed inventory checks to assist customers in locating merchandise from various retail locations • Communicate customer requests to management. • Assist in completing price changes within the department. • Complete customer transactions at register for merchandise sales ACTIVITIES Leadership 05/2006 – 06/2009 Vice President and Publicity, Psi Pi Alpha, City, CA • Responsible for outreaching and maintaining good relations with other college fraternities and sororities • Promoted and publicized the organization and its events through creating flyers and t-shirts using Photoshop as well as using online social networks such as, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and the organization’s website • Organized an on-campus event for Bone Marrow Drives for the Asian American Donor Program 04/2007 - 06/2009 Publicity Chairman and Core Member Vietnamese Student Association City, CA • Promoted and managed all aspect of public relations for the organization • Raised funds through design and creation of organization’s official t-shirt Extracurricular Activities Santa Barbara Senior Center Habitat for Humanity Breast cancer awareness marathon Reference Available Upon Request

this is my C.V.. wat job do u think i might get and how much would i be paid?? Curriculum Vitae , -, Phone# Email:@yahoo.co.in Objective: Seeking a responsible and challenging career in a reputed organization where I can utilize my skills and contribute for the development of the organization. EDUCATIONAL PROFILE: 1Completed BscIT from Sikkim Manipal University () in first attempt. 2 Completed Multimedia Graphics & Animation in the year April (2006) With grade B and scoring 6.95/10. from Aptech 2 Completed PC Hardware, MCSC-Windows2003, MS-Exchange Server CISCO Router Training (CCNA), RHCE Linux Administration From ZOOM Technologies (2007). 3. Passed CBSE with (61%) in 2006 from IIS High School. Skills Having Knowledge of : Internet, networking. Operating Systems Known: Window’s 98, Me, 2000, Xp , Red Hat Linx Packages: MS Office. Personal Strengths: 1Conscience. 2Ability to Work in a Team. 3Enthusiasm to Learn More Concepts. 4Good communication and presentation skills. Personal Profile: Name: Father’s Name: Gender:Male Status : Unmarried Date of Birth:21-07-1985 Nationality: Languages known: English, +, +.

Any tips on future life for a 13 year old? Ok, I know the question sounds wierd, but I just wanted some tips from an adult who has been through university and knows how to "get places" and what's involved. So this is who I am: I'm a 13 year old boy living in Sydney who really just wants to travel to another big city, have a family and have a position of power in a business. I am very academic, and (not boasting) excel in most academic areas. I enjoy my studies, and want to find a career in business after leaving university. I've always had this fantasy, however, of studying abroad and building networks in central cities of the world like New York or Shanghai. I have no idea what it takes to study abroad at a great university in the U.S. The University of Sydney looks great, and I'm sure I could get into it, but what's the story with studying elsewhere? Can you do that through your HSC? Is it an easy task? A big U.S. college has always been a dream of mine. Does anyone in the business world have any experience in building up connections? People like Mark Zuckerburg inspire me. People who run trans-national corporations and are following what's happening in the share-markets everyday make me feel like that's what I want to do. I don't want to necessarily "create" the business like Zuckerburg, but I just want to be that kind of person (I hope your keeping with my train of thought here)! So where do I start? My Father has had influential positions in a number of businesses including one of Australia's big banks and department stores. He tells me that he got to those positions from working on the floor levels of department stores, but that just isn't fitting together in my brain. So, what's the process from school, to university, to building connections in business? Where do I start. Do I have to take my own initiative, or will a university guide me or something? I honestly have no idea. Finally, I also want to travel. So far, I have been lucky enough to go to places such as China, Japan, U.S.A., Canada, New Zealand and Fiji. I am what most people would call a "city-slicker". I love big cities and the vibe that they give me of places where "so much is happening". Just the feeling of every building that you look in there's someone who's made a life for themself and is playing a part in something bigger than themself. So, long story short, I want to travel without getting caught up and moving from place to place finding odd jobs here and there. Maybe a gap year or something, but I don't want to let travels distract me from a family. Maybe a family in another country? Any tips? Anybody with experience, I would greatly appreciate some advice. 1) What's the story with studying abroad? 2) What's the story with gaining an influential position in the business world? 3) Is travel a considerable option in my situation? If so, what would be a productive travel destination + purpose? Thanks, Xave.

Happiness while work/school? PLEASE if you are going to take the time to answer this, read it from start to finish so you have a firm grasp of what's going through my mind. Thank you very much for your time and consideration! I've been doing a lot of deep thinking lately. Before school I have always thought about a few different jobs. Film Making, TV Hosting, Acting, Military (Various anything from SEAL to a IT guy). I recently got accepted into UCF for film and was disappointed to find that they focus on experimental and aesthetic film rather than commercial production film that you'd see in a theater. I've done quite a bit of basic research on the different careers and I know that none of them are necessarily "easy" to get into and that Filmmaking and Acting care more about experience than education. I have a few worries that I figured I'd post to see if anyone has insight. 1) I don't feel right at college. I see so many people who regret going to college, or end up with a job that has nothing to do with their degree. 2) I am rather mature for my age and am very close to my family. I don't like being away from home and missing my 3 younger brother's grow up. Above ALL ELSE, I want to die knowing that I spent as much time and had the best relationships possible with the people I care about. In all honesty screw the rest of the stuff in life if it interferes with the people you love. (This mostly comes from seeing my dad work 30 hours overtime every week even though he's on a salary based pay. He works very hard and loves us very much but he just doesn't know how to turn off the "Boss" gene and separate work time from family time. He's so scared and insecure that he'll lose control so he overcompensates by being very agitated and on edge all the time.) 3) I want to be happy but right now I feel like I'm not happy going to college. I'm nervous as hell about classes, the workload and the independence. I could get by and do very well in High School by sitting in the back of the room and doing exactly what I was told. Now I have to actively participate and stay on top of everything, the teachers just teach, everything else is on your hands. It's a little intimidating and I want to make sure I don't waste the next four years of my life on something I'll regret doing? 4) My plan as of right now is to transfer after my first semester to the local community college and save up some money to go to an acting school in LA that is spoke of highly by numerous actors and has 1400 of their 4000 students on IMDB. Rainn Wilson has even taught there. I want to make sure that I won't regret not attending a 4 year university for all 4 years though. I want to make the most out of college but I want to go to LA (2 part program. 1 month for part 1 and 2 months for part 2) just as bad if not more. I can also get accepted automatically into any state university with an AA from community college and during those 2 years work on my applications for colleges with good film programs like FSU and USC. 5) I would be totally happy and love going to work if I could get a job in game/entertainment journalism. I could get a radio-television degree at UCF and minor in business and theater. It would give me some of the basic skills I need to break into the Film Industry as well and start networking, which is more important than education in almost any job that isn't related to Law/Medical/Engineering/IT. I could also go to community for 2 years. Attend acting school in LA, and then go back to UCF after my AA for the radio-tv. The only downside to this would be that I wouldn't be getting extensive film training, but more basic training. I feel like this idea is the best and would make me the most happy as of right now but I want to make sure I'm not missing something or making a choice I'll regret. Basically ANY thoughts or suggestions are HUGELY appreciated but please don't come here to insult me. PS I'm very aware that most of my jobs are dreams that are going to take a lot of work. That's kind of what I'm asking, How far is too far when sacrificing happiness temporarily to get through a crappy job if it's a stepping stone. One thing I pride myself on is passion and work ethic. Often times the will to win outweighs the skill to win. Also any tips on handling stress if you feel like this job or class is dead end but you should probably work through it anyways. Thanks again!

Nuclear Physics, Electron Microscopy or Cisco Networking? Hi, I have a question for you guys, because I believe that the advice of some people can help me to get the right way. My target is Nuclear Physics, but, I wish to get a hands on training career first (2 years only) and, after that, to continue mi education to be a Physicist. The careers that I am talking are the Electron Microscopy Program and Cisco Networking Program, I need to get advice of people working in both areas if is possible, because, in the future, I need to work at night in one of them to attend classes in the day time in the Physics Program in a University. What do I need to know is in what of them I have more alternative to work at night, because if it's hard to find a job in the night time in one of them, I will enroll on the another one. Thank you for your time, All your answers are welcome.

Will there be a large exodus of primary care doctors soon? According to the Clinton news network, almost half want out. http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/17/primary.care.doctors.study/index.html The vast majority of doctors do not recommend medicine as a career. The primary reason is that malpractice suits make the job not worthwhile. An opposition to the health care overhaul is a significant ancillary reason. Could the large number of malpractice suits be a sign that our universities have turned out a maximum of people that have the aptitude to be competent physicians? Certainly it takes more than just training-it takes ability. Or is it a sign that doctors are rushed too much now days to do a good job? The shortage of primary care physicians already shows that 70 percent are maxed out on patients. Half want to quit but don't merely because they are not adequately qualified for another career. They are, however, discouraging people from choosing medicine as a career-they are not happy.

Please guide me. I want to pursue CCIE? Hi, I am Ashish. I need guidance for pursuing my career in cisco line. Please guide me as i have no else to help me out with my queries. I have done my 12th. I was doing my mettalurgy engineering but as it was taking too much time to complete i dropped out & changed my major to BCA. I am doing Distance Learning BCA from Sikkim Manipal University(SMU). I am in my 2nd semester now. I have certifications in CCNA, MCP(server-2003) & Hardware & Networking. Currently i am pursuing MCSE track & will be completing RHCE with certification this march. I want to end up being a CCIE. I have doubts & no one to guide me. Please Guide me. * if i don't have any job experience & if i be a CCIE then what package can i expect? * if i only take the ccie training program & not the certification then what are the job opportunity the expected salary package to get? Thank you, Waiting in anticipation. Ashish. L

Happiness while work/school? PLEASE if you are going to take the time to answer this, read it from start to finish so you have a firm grasp of what's going through my mind. Thank you very much for your time and consideration! I've been doing a lot of deep thinking lately. Before school I have always thought about a few different jobs. Film Making, TV Hosting, Acting, Military (Various anything from SEAL to a IT guy). I recently got accepted into UCF for film and was disappointed to find that they focus on experimental and aesthetic film rather than commercial production film that you'd see in a theater. I've done quite a bit of basic research on the different careers and I know that none of them are necessarily "easy" to get into and that Filmmaking and Acting care more about experience than education. I have a few worries that I figured I'd post to see if anyone has insight. 1) I don't feel right at college. I see so many people who regret going to college, or end up with a job that has nothing to do with their degree. 2) I am rather mature for my age and am very close to my family. I don't like being away from home and missing my 3 younger brother's grow up. Above ALL ELSE, I want to die knowing that I spent as much time and had the best relationships possible with the people I care about. In all honesty screw the rest of the stuff in life if it interferes with the people you love. (This mostly comes from seeing my dad work 30 hours overtime every week even though he's on a salary based pay. He works very hard and loves us very much but he just doesn't know how to turn off the "Boss" gene and separate work time from family time. He's so scared and insecure that he'll lose control so he overcompensates by being very agitated and on edge all the time.) 3) I want to be happy but right now I feel like I'm not happy going to college. I'm nervous as hell about classes, the workload and the independence. I could get by and do very well in High School by sitting in the back of the room and doing exactly what I was told. Now I have to actively participate and stay on top of everything, the teachers just teach, everything else is on your hands. It's a little intimidating and I want to make sure I don't waste the next four years of my life on something I'll regret doing? 4) My plan as of right now is to transfer after my first semester to the local community college and save up some money to go to an acting school in LA that is spoke of highly by numerous actors and has 1400 of their 4000 students on IMDB. Rainn Wilson has even taught there. I want to make sure that I won't regret not attending a 4 year university for all 4 years though. I want to make the most out of college but I want to go to LA (2 part program. 1 month for part 1 and 2 months for part 2) just as bad if not more. I can also get accepted automatically into any state university with an AA from community college and during those 2 years work on my applications for colleges with good film programs like FSU and USC. 5) I would be totally happy and love going to work if I could get a job in game/entertainment journalism. I could get a radio-television degree at UCF and minor in business and theater. It would give me some of the basic skills I need to break into the Film Industry as well and start networking, which is more important than education in almost any job that isn't related to Law/Medical/Engineering/IT. I could also go to community for 2 years. Attend acting school in LA, and then go back to UCF after my AA for the radio-tv. The only downside to this would be that I wouldn't be getting extensive film training, but more basic training. I feel like this idea is the best and would make me the most happy as of right now but I want to make sure I'm not missing something or making a choice I'll regret. Basically ANY thoughts or suggestions are HUGELY appreciated but please don't come here to insult me. PS I'm very aware that most of my jobs are dreams that are going to take a lot of work. That's kind of what I'm asking, How far is too far when sacrificing happiness temporarily to get through a crappy job if it's a stepping stone. One thing I pride myself on is passion and work ethic. Often times the will to win outweighs the skill to win. Thanks again!

Graduating IS major, want to go into Networking...Freaking out!? Hello all, I am currently an Information Systems Major at San Francisco State University. I will be graduating this may and already began searching for a job. The problem I am having is as I keep looking each job description list and incredibly long list of things you need to know ... programs I have never heard of. I think I should have mentioned earlier I want to go into either Networking or Databases. Anyway, the lists always list things I have never heard of or require experience that there is no way a college student can have. I think my problem is I don't know where to start, the only thing I really know in either field is what I've learned in class, and these are only introductory. I know about certain certs etc that would be helpful and am looking into getting those however my question is how do I get started, what is an entry level type position for someone like me? Is knowing all these different things listed required or will they train me in most of it? Sorry so long but you guys get the general idea of where my questions are headed ... basically how do I/did you get started in a career in IT?

Hertz management trainee interview in a few days--tips? Just graduated with BBA in Accounting, applied for & was invited to interview for Hertz management trainee position, at Hertz Local Edition, in a few days. Will interview at my university's career center. They told me to come prepared with knowledge about the Hertz Corporation, but that's all they said. Other candidates are business majors too, like marketing, professional sales, international business, management, etc. I need tips on blowing everyone else out of the water with this interview! Anything & everything you could think of, from targeted research (what specifics about the job position & corporation that I should research), to likely interview questions, to important selling points, etc.. ////////////// The following is from the job posting: Summary: In this challenging entry-level manager trainee position, you will learn what it takes to manage and grow a multi-million dollar business successfully. You will be responsible for varied management decision in many areas including: • Sales/Management • Customer service • Fleet distribution • Business development • Control Cost responsibilities You will gain valuable experience in the Hertz service network, Management Trainees use their management skills daily to make certain that people and equipment are in the right place at the right time. With your entrepreneurial spirit, you will gain a working, on-site knowledge of the growing business and gain marketable skills that can help you grow into a higher management position. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: In this position, your duties will include making daily management decisions in many areas including: • Training and Development • Customer Service • Sales/Marketing • Car inventory control • Supervisory responsibilities In addition, you would be developing the local and replacement markets by making sales calls to auto body shops, service centers, retail outlets and small businesses as well as establishing relationships with insurance companies and their local agents.

plz. help me to write the main idea of this article in the NY Times. in two pages.? November 5, 2006 Where Plan A Left Ahmad Chalabi By DEXTER FILKINS 1. London, August 2006 Many miles away in a more dangerous place the dream is ending badly. The bodies pile up. Good people stream to the borders. Leaders pile money onto planes. The center is giving way. The apartment on South Street in London is an antidote to Baghdad in nearly every respect. Where the Iraqi capital rings with chaos and violence, the sidewalks of Mayfair are quiet enough to hear your own voice above the cars. Baghdad is treeless and tan; the South Street apartment opens onto a private park filled with the lushness of an English garden. Just across the way is the Anglican church where General Eisenhower, stationed here as the commander of Allied forces during the war, came to pray. A maid greets you at the door, an elderly Lebanese woman who doubles as an Arabic teacher for the children. The parlor is neatly appointed and filled with art, most of it European, different from the Baghdad house, where most of it is Iraqi. There is “Sketch of a Woman,” by Lucien Pissarro, the French painter who propagated Impressionism in London; it catches the light nicely. The furniture is expensive, the kind that makes you hesitate to sit down. But the place has a lived-in quality too; family members come and go, clutching bags and calling to one another down the hallways. No one seems the least bit awed by the man of the house, who is dressed in a bespoke suit and carries himself like a monarch, and who, until now, hasn’t spent more than a day at a time here since before the Iraq war began. For Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq is an abstraction again. Once again, his native country is a faraway land ruled by somebody else, a place where other people die. It’s a place to be discussed, rued, plotted over, from a parlor on an expensive Western street. Iraq’s new leaders, the men who excluded Chalabi from the government they formed this spring, still call for advice — several times a day, Chalabi says. He is here in London, his longtime home in exile, temporarily, he says, taking his first vacation in five years. At lunch at a nearby restaurant an hour before, he ordered the sea bass wrapped in a banana leaf. He walks the streets unattended by armed guards. But the interlude, Chalabi says, is just that, a passing thing. His doubters will come back to him; they always have. As ever, he wears a jester’s smile, wide and blank, a mask that has carried him through crises of the first world and the third. Still, a touch of bitterness can creep into Chalabi’s voice, a hint that he has concluded that his time has come and gone. Indeed, even for a man as vain and resilient as Chalabi, his present predicament stands too large to go unacknowledged. Once Iraq’s anointed leader — anointed by the Americans — Chalabi, at age 62, is without a job, spurned by the very colleagues whose ascension he engineered. His benefactors in the White House and in the Pentagon, who once gobbled up whatever half-baked intelligence Chalabi offered, now regard him as undependable and — worse — safely ignored. Chalabi’s life work, an Iraq liberated from Saddam Hussein, a modern and democratic Iraq, is spiraling toward disintegration. Indeed, for many in the West, Chalabi has become the personification of all that has gone wrong in Iraq: the lies, the arrogance, the occupation as disaster. “The real culprit in all this is Wolfowitz,” Chalabi says, referring to his erstwhile backer, the former deputy secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz. “They chickened out. The Pentagon guys chickened out.” Chalabi still considers Wolfowitz a friend, so he proceeds carefully. America’s big mistake, Chalabi maintains, was in failing to step out of the way after Hussein’s downfall and let the Iraqis take charge. The Iraqis, not the Americans, should have been allowed to take over immediately — the people who knew the country, who spoke the language and, most important, who could take responsibility for the chaos that was unfolding in the streets. An Iraqi government could have acted harshly, even brutally, to regain control of the place, and the Iraqis would have been without a foreigner to blame. They would have appreciated the firm hand. There would have been no guerrilla insurgency or, if there was, a small one that the new Iraqi government could have ferreted out and crushed on its own. An Iraqi leadership would have brought Moktada al-Sadr, the populist cleric, into the government and house-trained him. The Americans, in all likelihood, could have gone home. They certainly would have been home by now. “We would have taken hold of the country,” Chalabi says. “We would have revitalized the civil service immediately. We would have been able to put together a military force and an intelligence service. There would have been no insurgency. We would have had electricity. The Americans screwed it up.” Chalabi’s notion — that an Iraqi government, as opposed to an American one, could have saved the great experiment — has become one of the arguments put forth by the war’s proponents in the just-beginning debate over who lost Iraq. At best, it’s improbable: Chalabi is essentially arguing that a handful of Iraqi exiles, some of whom had not lived in the country in decades, could have put together a government and quelled the chaos that quickly engulfed the country after Hussein’s regime collapsed. They could have done this, presumably, without an army (which most wanted to dissolve) and without a police force (which was riddled with Baathists). In fact, the Americans considered the idea and dismissed it. (But not, Wolfowitz insists, because of him. His longtime aide, Kevin Kellems, said that Wolfowitz favored turning over power “as rapidly as possible to duly elected Iraqi authorities.”) The Bush administration decided to go to the United Nations and have the American role in Iraq formally described as that of an “occupying power,” a step that no Iraqi, not even the lowliest tea seller, failed to notice. They appointed L. Paul Bremer III as viceroy. Instead of empowering Iraqis, Bremer set up an advisory panel of Iraqis — one that included Chalabi — that had no power at all. The warmth that many ordinary Iraqis felt for the Americans quickly ebbed away. It’s not clear that the Americans had any other choice. But here in his London parlor, Chalabi is now contending that excluding Iraqis was the Americans’ fatal mistake. “It was a puppet show!” Chalabi exclaims again, shifting on the couch. “The worst of all worlds. We were in charge, and we had no power. We were blamed for everything the Americans did, but we couldn’t change any of it.” It’s three and a half years later now. More than 2,800 Americans are dead; more than 3,000 Iraqis die each month. The anarchy seems limitless. In May 2004, American and Iraqi agents even raided Chalabi’s home in Baghdad. He has been denounced by Bremer and by Bush and accused of passing secrets to America’s enemy, Iran. At the heart of the American decision to take over and run Iraq, Chalabi now concludes, lay a basic contempt for Iraqis, himself included. “In Wolfowitz’s mind, you couldn’t trust the Iraqis to run a democracy,” Chalabi says. “ ‘We have to teach them, give them lessons,’ in Wolfowitz’s mind. ‘We have to leave Iraq under our tutelage. The Iraqis are useless. The Iraqis are incompetent.’ “What I didn’t realize,” Chalabi says, “was that the Americans sold us out.” Turkish coffee is served, then tea. I consider Chalabi’s predicament: the Iraqi patrician, confidant of prime ministers and presidents, the M.I.T.- and University of Chicago-trained mathematics professor, owner of a Mayfair flat, complaining of being regarded, by the masters he once manipulated, as a scruffy, shiftless native. “I’ve been a friend of America, and I’ve been its enemy,” he says. “America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I’d rather be America’s enemy.” And so he is. Sort of. With Chalabi, it’s hard to be certain, and not just because his motives are so opaque, but because he is never still. He is enigmatic, brilliant, nimble, unreliable, charming, narcissistic, finally elusive. The journey to Mayfair is a long one. What happened to Chalabi? Well, you might ask: What happened to Iraq? 2. Mushkhab, January 2005 The election is coming, and we are heading south. Twenty cars, mostly carrying men with guns. They hang out the windows, pointing their Kalashnikovs at the terrified drivers. Get out of the way or we shoot, and maybe we shoot anyway — that’s the message. But that’s Iraq. We move quickly, weaving, south in the southbound, south in the northbound. Very fast. Unbelievably fast. Drivers veer and career. We go where we want. We’re low on fuel, and a gas station beckons. It is one of the strange and singular facts of Iraqi life that despite sitting atop an ocean of oil, Iraqis must wait hours — often days — for gasoline at the pumps. Lack of refining capacity, smuggling, stealing, insurgent attacks, Soviet subsidies: it’s complicated. On the road outside Salman Pak, the line is perhaps 300 cars long. The Chalabi convoy cuts straight to the front of the line. No one protests. It’s the guns. The Iraqis wait for days, and our effrontery brings no protest. Not a peep. We get our gas and we speed away, guns out the windows. Very fast. An hour later, we arrive at our destination, Mushkhab. It’s a mostly Shiite town about 100 miles south of Baghdad. It is friendly country — to Chalabi, and still, then, to Americans. The whole town — the males, anyway — gathers round. Chalabi stands in the center, dressed in a dark gray Western suit. The Iraqis clap and read poetry; some of it they sing. It’s a tradition, a kind of serenade to the honored guest. “Hey, listen, Bush, we are Iraqis,” the poet says, and everyone is clapping. “We never bow our heads to anyone, and we won’t do it for you. We have tough guys like Chalabi on our side — be careful.” Everyone laughs. We move inside the mudhif, a tall, long, fantastic structure woven of dried river reeds, a kind of pavilion of rattan. The room is laid with hand-woven carpets, and on the walls hang framed yellowed photographs of the leaders of the tribe, Al Fatla, meeting with their British overlords many years ago. A pair of loudspeakers are set up in the front. Chalabi takes a microphone. “My Iraqi brothers, the Americans pushed out Saddam, but they did not liberate our country,” Chalabi tells the group. “We are asking you to participate in this election so that we can have an independent country. This is not just words. The Iraqi people will liberate the country.” He goes on a little more, warming to the Iraqis assembled about him. “On my way here, I saw a huge line of people waiting for gasoline,” Chalabi tells the group. “Some of them were there for two nights, carrying blankets with them. It makes me very sad to see my brothers wait for days to get gas at the station.” Shameless, huh? I thought so, too. Almost a thing of beauty. It was so outrageous I almost wanted to forgive him, as a teacher might her sassy but cleverest boy. And that’s the thing about Chalabi: he’s very difficult to dislike. It may be his secret. It was Chalabi, after all — a foreigner, an Arab — who persuaded the most powerful men and women in the United States to make the liberation of Iraq not merely a priority but an obsession. First in 1998, when Chalabi persuaded Congress to pass the Iraq Liberation Act (in turn leading to payments to his group, the Iraqi National Congress, exceeding $27 million over the next six years) and then, later, in persuading the Bush administration of the necessity of using force to destroy Saddam Hussein. And when it all went bad, when those nuclear weapons never turned up, the clever child shrugged and smiled. “We are heroes in error,” Chalabi told Britain’s Daily Telegraph. Almost with a wink. Lunch is served: a long table heaped with rice and roasted lamb. No seats. Everyone stands, dozens of us, and we dig in with our fingers. After a time, we prepare to leave. The table and the ground around it are littered with rice and lamb bones. We re-form into a convoy and speed toward the holy city of Najaf. By the time we arrive in Najaf, it’s dark. The fighting between American soldiers and the Mahdi Army irregulars laid waste to the city only a few months before, but on this night, Najaf seems remarkably calm. The pilgrim hotels lie in ruins, but the golden dome of the shrine of Imam Ali shimmers under a January moon. Chalabi exits his S.U.V. and strides inside through the 20-foot-high wooden doors. A clutch of Sunni leaders, whom Chalabi has agreed to show around, trail in step. The curiosities intersect: the Sunnis are not Shiites, and this is the holiest of Shiite places, the tomb of the son-in-law of the Holy Prophet and the very heart of the Shiite faith. But they are still Muslims, and they are allowed to pass. As a non-Muslim, I wait outside in the street. More unlikely than the presence of the Sunnis is their tour guide, Chalabi. Or it was unlikely. Not anymore. Chalabi, the Westernized, Western-educated mathematician, has entered his Islamist phase. It’s not terribly convincing. He does not don a turban. He has no beard. He does not pray. He does not, really, even pretend. But as a practical politician — as an exile come home to a strange land getting stranger by the day — Chalabi had to do something. Relations between Chalabi and the Bush administration began to sour almost immediately after the fall of Hussein, when the Americans decided against putting Iraqis — presumably Chalabi — in charge. Bremer considered him an egomaniac. When no W.M.D. turned up, more and more Americans came to blame Chalabi for the war. Chalabi’s association with the Americans grew more disadvantageous by the day. The break came on May 20, 2004, when the Americans, accusing Chalabi of telling the Iranian government that the Americans were eavesdropping on their secret communications, swooped in on his Baghdad compound. American troops sealed off Mansour, the neighborhood where Chalabi lived, while scores of Iraqi and American agents kicked in the compound doors. One of the Iraqis, Chalabi said, put a gun to his head. “Look, I think they tried to kill him,” Richard Perle, the former Pentagon adviser and longtime Chalabi friend, said of the American and Iraqi agents. “I think the raid on his house was intended to result in violence. They had sent 20 or 40 Humvees over there. Chalabi was being protected by a force of about 100 guys with machine guns. It is a miracle that it didn’t result in a massive shootout.” No shots were fired, but the break seemed final. Isolated, Chalabi turned to Islam — and, in particular, to Moktada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric and leader of two armed uprisings against the Americans and the Iraqi government. Sadr is an erratic and unpredictable young man who sometimes ends his sermons with apocalyptic visions of the “hidden” 12th imam revealing himself. He is also the most popular man in Iraq. In the anarchy that ensued following the fall of Hussein, Iraqis, once known for their largely secular outlook, ran headlong toward Islam. Religion and anarchy moved together: the worse conditions got in the streets, the more Islamic Iraqis became. In the three and a half years that I have known Chalabi, I never once saw him pray. Or give any indication that he harbored religious beliefs at all. Mowaffak al-Rubaie, the Iraqi national security adviser and a devout Shiite, told me once that when he and a group of five senior Iraqi politicians visited the Imam Ali shrine in 2004, all of them prayed but Chalabi. While the others knelt, Rubaie said, Chalabi stood quietly with his hands folded in front of him. On this return visit to the Imam Ali shrine, Chalabi and his Sunni colleagues spent 10 minutes inside and exited without saying a thing. But word travels quickly down Najaf’s narrow streets, and by the time our convoy sped back to Baghdad, there were very few people in Najaf who did not know that Chalabi had come. Once, when I asked Chalabi about his flirtation with the Islamists, he answered not in terms of religion but of politics. Moktada, he explained, was not essentially dangerous but merely misunderstood, an outsider who could be coaxed into Iraq’s new democratic order. Chalabi was happy to act as the bridge, and if he benefited politically from his efforts, he was not complaining. “The Americans made a mistake when they excluded Moktada in the beginning,” Chalabi told me. “Our real business is to persuade everybody that Sadr is better inside than outside, and to provide some measure of comfort to the middle class that he is not going to eat them up.” Indeed, Chalabi and Sadr are not as unlikely a pair as they may seem. Musa al-Sadr, the late Iranian-born ayatollah and Moktada’s cousin, presided over Chalabi’s wedding in Beirut in 1971. Chalabi’s wife, Leila, is the daughter of Adel Osseiran, a leader of the Lebanese independence movement. Musa al-Sadr was the founder of Amal, which became the prototypical Shiite party in the Middle East. It seemed like a game, and not one that Chalabi liked to give away. Whenever I asked him about his coziness with Moktada, and how it squared with his own religious beliefs, I usually received a curt retort. For a time, Chalabi — and the Americans — got the better of the deal. Moktada fielded candidates in the January 2005 election, and his militia, though still untamed, fell into line behind its leader. He endorsed something less than an absolute role for Islam in the Iraqi Constitution. By early 2006, parties loyal to Sadr held the largest bloc in the Iraqi Parliament. As for Chalabi, Moktada kept him afloat a little longer. But in siding with the Islamists, Chalabi helped make them stronger than they were, and he threw his weight behind a number of trends that were only then becoming dominant: the Islamization of Iraqi society, the division of Iraq into sectarian cantons. Those trends later spiraled out of control, into the de facto civil war that is unfolding now. Some Iraqis who watched Chalabi then still don’t forgive him — and they think that ultimately, the Islamists got the better of him. “Ahmad’s problem is that Ahmad is usually the smartest man in the room, and he thinks he can control what happens,” I was told by an Iraqi official who worked with Chalabi at the time and who would speak only anonymously. “But these guys don’t care if you have a Ph.D. in math; they’ll kill you. In the end, things went way past the point where Ahmad thought they would ever go. I can’t imagine he wanted that. But he helped start it.” 3. Baghdad, October 2005 Chalabi is standing on the rooftop of his ancestral home in Khadimiya, a heavily Shiite neighborhood known for its shrine. Mansour, the area where he has lived since Hussein’s fall, has slipped into anarchy. The final round of nationwide elections is a couple of months away. For the moment, Chalabi is the deputy prime minister, behind the affable but ineffectual Ibrahim Jaafari. Across the street stand a pair of grain silos built by his father, Abdul Hadi Chalabi. Downstairs, on a wall in the sitting room, there is an old British map dating to the 1920’s, showing Baghdad, which was much smaller than it is now. North of Baghdad, in what was then farmland and what is now Khadimiya, a dot indicates a town. The dot says, “Chalabi.” At the time, Chalabi’s family owned nearly two and a half million acres throughout Iraq. Those vast holdings are reduced to the compound where Chalabi now stands. It’s about 10 acres, including the main house, which a team of workers is renovating, a large swimming pool, a grove of date palms and, in the back, a mudhif. There is a row of garages, decrepit now, where workers once serviced the machinery and trucks that brought the wheat and dates to market. “Imagine,” Chalabi says, turning to me. “And C.I.A. says I have no roots here.” Chalabi spent 45 years in exile. Under the Hashemite monarchy installed by the British after World War I, the ruling class of the new Iraq was largely made up of Sunni Muslims, as it had been under the Ottoman Turks. The Chalabis were part of the small Shiite elite; most of the rest of the Shiite majority formed a vast underclass. The remnants of that Shiite elite now form a sizable slice of the political establishment of post-Saddam Iraq. In addition to Chalabi, there is Adil Abdul Mahdi, the vice president, a Chalabi friend since boyhood; Ayad Allawi, the former president, who is a Chalabi relative by marriage; and Feisal al-Istrabadi, the deputy ambassador to the United Nations in New York. In the 1950’s, Chalabi, Mahdi and Allawi were schoolmates at Baghdad College, an elite Jesuit high school. Even in their class photos, nearly a half-century old, all three men are instantly recognizable: Mahdi, the soft-spoken intellectual; Allawi, the charming bully; and Chalabi, the boy genius in a bow tie. On July 14, 1958, King Faisal II, the British-backed monarch, was deposed and killed; a day later, the prime minister, Nuri al-Said, fled to the home of Chalabi’s sister, Thamina. She dressed Said in an abaya, the head-to-toe gown worn by women. With the army closing in, Thamina Chalabi took Said to the home of Feisal al-Istrabadi’s grandparents. Ahmad Chalabi, then 14, watched his mother and Bibiya al-Istrabadi weep as they pondered the prime minister’s fate. “Three or four hours later, Said was dead,” Chalabi told me. “He shot himself.” Chalabi fled Iraq a few months later, first for Lebanon, then England and then America, where he received a degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. (Dissertation title: “Jacobson Radical of Group Algebras Over Fields Characteristic p.”) He did not return to Baghdad until April 11, 2003. Chalabi’s homecoming, after the U.S. invasion, was not the triumphant return he hoped it would be. What should have been his principal claim to legitimacy — his central role in toppling Saddam — never carried him very far; it became a liability as Iraq descended into chaos. In the new Iraq, Westernized elites carried less and less authority. Power belonged to the clerics and to the populists. And then there was the scandal at Petra Bank in Jordan, the outlines of which every Iraqi, no matter how dimly educated, seemed already to know: that Chalabi had been convicted in absentia for fraud and sentenced to 22 years in prison for embezzling almost $300 million. (Chalabi, who fled Jordan before he could be arrested, has long denied the charges, maintaining that they were cooked up by the Jordanian government under pressure from Saddam Hussein. Last year, the Jordanians signaled that they were willing to pardon Chalabi. But Chalabi insisted on a public apology, which the Jordanians refused to give.) Even the small army of Iraqi exiles that Chalabi had raised before the war never grew to be much more than a personal militia. One poll, conducted in early 2004, showed him to be the least trusted public figure in Iraq — even less trusted than Saddam Hussein. Dexter Filkins The suspicions that ordinary Iraqis harbored about Chalabi were never relieved by his industriousness. As oil minister and deputy prime minister, Chalabi worked night and day, often on the minutiae of Iraq’s oil pipelines and electricity lines or the precise wording, in Arabic and English, of the Iraqi Constitution. I typically went to see Chalabi at night, sometimes at 9 or 10, and usually had to wait an hour or so while he finished with his other visitors. If it was true that Chalabi had returned to Iraq with the expectation of acquiring power, it was not true that he was unwilling to work for it. Chalabi, like all Iraqi political leaders, functioned in conditions of mortal danger at nearly all times. Even when he wanted to walk into his backyard, he had to be followed by armed guards. It’s an exhausting and debilitating way to live. But while many Iraqi exiles either gave up and returned to the West, or now spend as much time outside the country as in, Chalabi stayed in Iraq almost continuously following Hussein’s fall. For all the hard work, his zigging and zagging across the political spectrum frustrated many of the Iraqi elites — his only natural constituency — especially after his flirtation with the Islamists. “I don’t think Chalabi has any credibility left,” Adnan Pachachi, the 83-year-old former foreign minister, told me before the 2005 elections. “He is not acceptable to Iraqis. People don’t like him shifting all the time. This thing with Moktada — it’s ridiculous.” One who remained true was his friend Mahdi, who seemed, perhaps from his boyhood days swimming in the Tigris with Chalabi, to carry a deeper understanding of his old friend. “This is the style of Ahmad,” Mahdi told me just before the elections. “He was a banker. He works a dossier. Each time it’s different — he invests here, he invests there, he invests elsewhere. He has had successes, he has had maybe his failures. I can work with him.” Chalabi never grasped his essential unpopularity. In the first round of elections, in January 2005, Chalabi rode into office as a member of the United Iraqi Alliance, the Shiite coalition pulled together by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the powerful Shiite religious leader. Nearly every Shiite in Iraq voted for the U.I.A., and a name on its slate all but guaranteed a seat in the Parliament. The leadership of the U.I.A. was sharply Islamist. Nearly a year later, as the December 2005 elections approached, Chalabi veered again, away from the Islamists, away from Moktada. Chalabi publicly chided the Shiite coalition as being too Islamic-minded, declaring he didn’t want to be a member of a government that was planning to transform Iraq into an Islamist state. By that time, of course, Iraq was already quite Islamist anyway. “They’re Islamist, and I don’t want to be part of the sectarian project,” Chalabi told me just before the elections that December. I actually believed him, but given his association with Moktada, it didn’t seem that many other Iraqis would. The reality, anyway, was more complicated. In the weeks before the election, the Shiite alliance offered Chalabi and his supporters 5 seats on its 275-seat slate; Chalabi demanded 10. Some Shiite leaders told me that they had deliberately offered Chalabi a low figure in the hope that he would leave their alliance for good. Mahdi, the vice president, denied that this was true. “For four days I tried to convince him; I even threatened him,” Mahdi told me. “I said, ‘Ahmad, if you leave this room, we will be no more friends.’ I was not serious. I was only threatening.” So Chalabi went his own way. If he had wanted only a seat for himself, he could have taken his place in the Shiite alliance; plenty of other Iraqis did. In going alone, he must have known that he was risking disaster. He went ahead anyway. A few days before the election, I drove up to Chalabi’s compound in Khadimiya for a lunch he was holding for tribal leaders. In much the same fashion as in Mushkhab 11 months before, about 100 sheiks from Sadr City listened to a Chalabi speech before descending on heaps of lamb and rice. One of the sheiks, a man named Sahaeh Masif al-Kindh, approached me as he walked out. “Chalabi didn’t forget us when we were living under Saddam,” al-Kindh told me. “He was Saddam’s biggest enemy. We don’t forget that.” 4. Washington, November 2005 The second round of Iraqi elections is only a few weeks away, and the wheel is turning again. Chalabi, once in favor, then out, is back in. Ostensibly, he has been invited to Washington by Treasury Secretary John Snow to talk about the Iraqi economy. But it’s more than that. He’s going to see Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The allegations that prompted the raid on Chalabi’s compound 18 months before, that he tipped the Iranians to American eavesdropping, are mysteriously forgotten. Indeed, everything seems to have been forgotten. Chalabi is rising on the catastrophe that Iraq has become. The Bush administration is grasping for anyone who might help them. On paper at least, Chalabi has a shot at becoming prime minister. Most of the meetings are private. There is a dinner at the home of Richard Perle for some of Chalabi’s old Washington friends. One of the events, a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, is public. The room is filled. At the end of a speech, Chalabi is asked by someone in the crowd if he would like to apologize for misleading the Bush administration about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Chalabi nods as if he knew the question was coming. “This is an urban myth,” he says. The audience gasps. Chalabi told me later that his role as an intelligence conduit on weapons of mass destruction began shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, when he was contacted by the Department of Defense. Not vice versa. “They came to us and asked, ‘Can you help us find something on Saddam?’ ” he said. “We put out feelers.” By that time, the autumn of 2001, Chalabi had a long record of working with the American government in its shadow war against Hussein. Throughout the 1990’s, however, Chalabi demonstrated time and again that he would pursue his own interests, even if they clashed with those of the United States. There was the time in 1995, for instance, when Chalabi, under the employ of the C.I.A. in the Kurdish-controlled city of Erbil, launched an unauthorized attack on Hussein’s army. The attack failed to spark an uprising against Hussein; the Turks sent troops into northern Iraq; the C.I.A. was furious. It was a fiasco. “Very quickly he got out of control,” one retired C.I.A. officer who worked with Chalabi told me. “We didn’t know what he was doing over there. He was trying to provoke a war with Saddam.” Then there was the time, in 1996, when Chalabi interfered with a C.I.A. plot to topple Saddam. I heard the story not from Chalabi but from Perle, the Bush defense adviser and Chalabi friend. As Perle tells it, Chalabi called him in a panic from London, telling him that a C.I.A.-backed plot against Hussein was fatally compromised. The fact that the C.I.A.’s Iraqi front-man for the plot, Ayad Allawi, was a rival of Chalabi’s (as well as his relative) had nothing to do with his concerns, Perle said. As Perle tells it, he quickly telephoned the C.I.A. director at the time, John Deutch, who agreed to meet in downtown Washington. Perle said he spent an hour laying out Chalabi’s worries. “He was obviously concerned,” Perle said of Deutch. The plot went ahead anyway. It was a catastrophe. Hussein arrested as many as 800 people and reportedly executed dozens of high-ranking officers. As a final indignity, Hussein’s men dialed up Allawi’s headquarters in Amman, Jordan, on a C.I.A.-provided communications device they captured from the plotters and left a message: “You might as well pack up and go home.” Some people in the C.I.A. held Chalabi responsible, believing that he had spread word of the plot in order to deny Ayad Allawi the upper hand in the exile movement. “There was abiding suspicion in the agency that Chalabi blew it,” the former C.I.A. agent said. The fallout over the failed coup precipitated the C.I.A.’s decision to break ties with Chalabi. Chalabi dismisses those claims, and some in the C.I.A. from the period back him up. “Chalabi was as true to me as the day was long,” says Robert Baer, a former C.I.A. field agent in northern Iraq. “If Chalabi was going to blow the operation, why would he tell the C.I.A.?” There was the money issue, too. Throughout the 1990’s, as the C.I.A. and Congress funneled millions of dollars to Chalabi’s organization, the Iraqi National Congress, rumors swirled about corruption. One of the skeptics was W. Patrick Lang, a senior official at the Defense Intelligence Agency. In 1995, Lang told me, he was sitting in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, when he overheard a group of Iraqis talking about the money they had received from the American government. “I knew who these guys were, and I heard them speaking Arabic, and it was obviously Iraqi Arabic,” Lang said. “So I went over and sat next to them and listened. So what they were talking about was how to spend the Americans’ money, going on shopping trips, stuff like that. Oh, they were talking about going shopping for jewelry for women, toys for kids. Consumer goods. They were also talking about Las Vegas. ‘We will sneak out of here and go to Las Vegas. We have a lot of money now.’ ” A couple of years later, Lang said, he visited the office of Senator Trent Lott, then the Senate majority leader. After introducing an Arab businessman to Lott, Lang sat in Lott’s anteroom with a number of Capitol Hill staff members who helped draft the Iraq Liberation Act, which provided millions of dollars to Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. They were praising Chalabi: “They were talking about him, that Chalabi fits into this plan as a very worthwhile, virtuous exemplar of modernization, somebody who could help reform first Iraq and then the Middle East. They were very pleased with themselves.” Lang, an old Middle East hand who had worked in Iraq in the 1980’s, said he was stunned. “You guys need to get out more,” Lang recalls saying at the time. “It’s a fantasy.” Years later, Lang said, many of the same men who were sitting in Lott’s office that day became key players in the Pentagon’s plans for an invasion of Iraq. Which brings us back to Chalabi’s “urban myth”: the notion that he provided bogus intelligence to the Bush administration and helped persuade them — or provide the pretext — to invade Iraq. In his speech at the American Enterprise Institute, Chalabi exhorted the audience to turn to Page 108 of the Robb-Silverman report, a recently completed blue-ribbon investigation, which, he said, exonerates him. It does, in a way. The report does not say that Chalabi & Company played an important role in the events leading to the war. It says only that the Bush administration did not rely much on intelligence Chalabi handed over in making the decision to invade. “In fact, overall, C.I.A.’s postwar investigations revealed that I.N.C.-related sources had a minimal impact on prewar assessments,” the report says. This is also Chalabi’s version. In the run-up to war, he says, he provided only three defectors to the American intelligence community. “We did not vouch for any of their information,” Chalabi told me. One of the people whom the I.N.C. made available to American intelligence was Adnan Ihsan al-Haideri, who claimed that he had worked on buildings that were used to store biological, nuclear and chemical weapons equipment. Chalabi told me that he made Haideri available to American intelligence at a safe house in Bangkok. He didn’t think much of Haideri or his information, he says, and was astonished to learn later that the information he provided became a pillar of the Americans’ charges against Hussein. “We told them, ‘We don’t know who this guy is,’ ” Chalabi said. “Then the Americans spoke to him and said, ‘This guy is the mother lode.’ Can you believe that on such a basis the United States would go to war? The intelligence community regarded the I.N.C. as useless. Why would the government believe us?” Perle, from his perch on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Advisory Committee Board, backs Chalabi’s version. He was privy to much of the intelligence the administration was collecting on Hussein in the days before the war. He says that American intelligence officials began from the premise that Hussein had never destroyed his stocks of banned weapons and that he had kept his programs alive. American spies were only looking to confirm what they thought they already knew. In any event, Perle said, very little of their information came from Chalabi. “I had all the security clearances,” Perle said. “I was pretty much aware of the people that the I.N.C. was bringing to the table to talk about what they knew. Everything they did came with a disclaimer. To the best of my knowledge, there was no single important fact that was uniquely conveyed to U.S. intelligence by anyone who had been assisted by the I.N.C.” Indeed, Chalabi says, much of the most important evidence that led America to war did not come from the I.N.C.: not the report on the uranium from Niger, and not Curveball, the Iraqi defector who made bogus claims about mobile biological weapons labs. “It’s not our fault,” Chalabi says. But the story doesn’t end there. A second report, released by the Senate Intelligence Committee in September 2006, reached far more damning conclusions. The report states flatly that Chalabi’s group introduced defectors to American intelligence who directly influenced two key judgments in the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, which preceded the Senate vote on the Iraq war: that Hussein possessed mobile biological-weapons laboratories and that he was trying to reconstitute his nuclear program. The report said that the I.N.C. provided a large volume of flawed intelligence to the United States about Iraq, saying the group “attempted to influence United States policy on Iraq by providing false information through defectors directed at convincing the United States that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.” (Five Republican senators disagreed with the report’s conclusions about the I.N.C.) Chalabi’s denials are unconvincing for another reason. His role in the preparations for war was not just as a source for American intelligence agencies. He was America’s chief public advocate for war, spreading information gathered by his own intelligence network to newspapers, magazines, television programs and Congress. (A New York Times reporter, Judith Miller, was one of Chalabi’s primary conduits; in an e-mail message sent in 2003 that has been widely quoted since, she wrote that Chalabi “has provided most of the front-page exclusives on W.M.D. to our paper” and that the Army unit she was then traveling with was “using Chalabi’s intell and document network for its own W.M.D. work.”) Indeed, the press proved even more gullible than the intelligence experts in the American government. In a June 2002 letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee, the I.N.C. listed 108 news articles based on information provided by the group. The list included articles concerning some of the wildest claims about Hussein, including that he had collaborated in the Sept. 11 attacks. David Kay, the former chief weapons inspector in Iraq, offers one of the most compelling explanations for how pivotal Chalabi’s role was in taking America to war. Kay said that while the C.I.A. had long regarded Chalabi with suspicion, disregarding much of what he gave them, Chalabi had succeeded in persuading his more powerful friends in other parts of the government — Vice President Dick Cheney, for instance, and Wolfowitz. The pressure brought by those men, Kay told me, ultimately persuaded George Tenet, director of the C.I.A., that the White House was committed to war and that there was no point in resisting it. “In my judgment, the reason George Tenet and the top of the agency came over to the argument that Iraq had W.M.D. was that they really knew that the vice president and Wolfowitz had come to that conclusion anyway,” Kay said. “They had been getting information from Chalabi for years.” Of Wolfowitz, whom he has known for years, Kay said: “He was a true believer. He thought he had the evidence. That came from the defectors. They came from Chalabi.” Kay said he continued to feel Chalabi’s influence with Wolfowitz even after the invasion, when Kay was leading the team searching for W.M.D. from mid- to late 2003. “Paul, when faced with evidence that we had developed on the ground, would say, Well, Chalabi says this, the I.N.C. says this, why are you not seeing it?” Kellems, the Wolfowitz assistant, disputed Kay’s story, saying that Tenet’s views were shared by officials across the government. “The position taken on weapons was the consensus view of the United States, including of the Clinton administration and other Western intelligence agencies — as well as that of Mr. Kay himself prior to visiting Iraq,” Kellems said. Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell in Bush’s first term, adds a final turn to the labyrinth. In the frantic days leading up to Powell’s speech at the United Nations in February 2003, when he laid out the case for war, Wilkerson said he spent many nights sleeping on a couch in George Tenet’s office. During those preparations, Wilkerson told me, Powell insisted that every point he would make at the U.N. had to be supported by at least three independent sources. “We had three or four sources for every item that was substantive in his presentation,” Wilkerson told me in an interview in Washington. “Powell insisted on that. But what I am hearing now, though, is that a lot of these sources sort of tinged and merged back into a single source, and that inevitably that single source seems to be either recommended by, set up by, orchestrated by, introduced by, or whatever, by somebody in the I.N.C.” Wilkerson said that the revelations, some of which he says he has heard from his own friends inside American and European intelligence agencies, have forced him to rethink how America went to war. “I have maintained pretty much the same thing that the president said, ‘Well, we all got fooled, it was lousy intelligence, and no one in the national leadership spun the intelligence,’ ” Wilkerson said. “I am having to revisit that. And that is disturbing to me.” Wilkerson raises a crucial point. Assuming that Chalabi was a source for at least some of the bogus intelligence, we might ask ourselves: so what? Was the American national security apparatus so incompetent that it could be hoodwinked by a handful of shopworn engineers and an Iraqi mathematician to take the country into war? Or is the lesson more disturbing — that Chalabi simply gave the Bush administration what it wanted to hear? “I think Chalabi and the I.N.C. were very shrewd,” Wilkerson said. “I think Chalabi understood what people wanted, and he fed it to them. From everything I’ve heard, no one says he is dumb.” 5. Tehran, November 2005 Amid the debate about Chalabi’s role in taking America to war, one little-noticed phrase in a Senate Intelligence Committee report on W.M.D. offered an important insight into Chalabi’s identity. One of the principal errors made by the Bush administration in relying on Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress, the report said, was to disregard conclusions by the C.I.A. and the Defense Intelligence Agency that “the I.N.C. was penetrated by hostile intelligence services,” notably those of Iran. The Iran connection has long been among the most beguiling aspects of Chalabi’s career. Baer, the former C.I.A. operative, recalled sitting in a hotel lobby in Salah al-Din, in Kurdish-controlled Iraq, in 1995 while Chalabi met with the turbaned representatives of Iranian intelligence on the other side of the room. (Baer, as an American, was barred from meeting the Iranians.) Baer says he came to regard Chalabi as an Iranian asset, and still does. “He is basically beholden to the Iranians to stay viable,” Baer told me. “All his C.I.A. connections — he wouldn’t get away with that sort of thing with the Iranians unless he had proved his worth to them.” Pat Lang, the D.I.A. agent, holds a similar view: that in Chalabi, the Iranians probably saw someone who could help them achieve their long-sought goal of removing Saddam Hussein. After a time, in Lang’s view, the Iranians may have figured the Americans would leave and that Chalabi would most likely be in charge. Lang insists he is only speculating, but he says it has been clear to the American intelligence community for years that Chalabi has maintained “deep contacts” with Iranian officials. “Here is what I think happened,” Lang said. “Chalabi went and told the guys at the Ministry of Intelligence and Security in Tehran: ‘The Americans are giving me money. I’m their guy. I’m their candidate.’ And I’m sure their eyes lit up. The Iranians would reason that they could use this guy to manipulate the United States to get what they wanted. They would figure that the U.S. would invade. They would figure that we would come and we would go, and if we left Chalabi in charge, who was a good friend of theirs, they would be in good shape.” Lang’s thesis is impossible to prove, and Chalabi denies it. And even if it were true, Chalabi’s role would be difficult to discern: so many different Iranian agencies are thought to be pursuing so many different agendas in Iraq that a single Iranian national interest is difficult to identify. Still, if Lang’s and Baer’s argument is true, it would be the stuff of spy novels: Chalabi, the American-adopted champion of Iraqi democracy, a kind of double agent for one of America’s principal adversaries. In late 2005, I accompanied Chalabi on a trip to Iran, in part to solve the riddle. We drove eastward out of Baghdad, in a convoy as menacing as the one we had ridden in south to Mushkhab earlier in the year. After three hours of weaving and careering, the plains of eastern Iraq halted, and the terrain turned sharply upward into a thick ridge of arid mountains. We had come to Mehran, on one of history’s great fault lines, the historic border between the Ottoman and Persian Empires. As we crossed into Iran, the wreckage and ruin of modern Iraq gave way to swept streets and a tidy border post with shiny bathrooms. Another world. An Iranian cleric approached and shook Chalabi’s hand. Then he said something curious: “We are disappointed to hear that you won’t be staying in the Shiite alliance,” he said. “We were really hoping you’d stay.” The border between Iraq and Iran had, for the moment, disappeared. More curious, though, was the authority that Chalabi seemed to carry in Iran, which, after all, has been accused of assisting Iraqi insurgents and otherwise stirring up chaos there. For starters, Chalabi asked me if I wanted to come along on his Iranian trip only the night before he left — and then procured a visa for me in a single day: a Friday, during the Eid holiday, when the Iranian Embassy was closed. Under ordinary circumstances, an American reporter might wait weeks. Then there was the executive jet. When we arrived at the border, Chalabi ducked into a bathroom and changed out of his camouflage T-shirt and slacks and into a well-tailored blue suit. Then we drove to Ilam, where an 11-seat Fokker jet was idling on the runway of the local airport. We jumped in and took off for Tehran, flying over a dramatic landscape of canyons and ravines. We landed in Iran’s smoggy capital, and within a couple of hours, Chalabi was meeting with the highest officials of the Iranian government. One of them was Ali Larijani, the national security adviser. I interviewed Larijani the next morning. “Our relationship with Mr. Chalabi does not have anything to do with his relationship with the neocons,” he said. His red-rimmed eyes, when I met him at 7 a.m., betrayed a sleepless night. “He is a very constructive and influential figure. He is a very wise man and a very useful person for the future of Iraq.” Then came the meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president. I was with a handful of Iranian reporters who were led into a finely appointed room just outside the president’s office. First came Chalabi, dressed in a tailored suit, beaming. Then Ahmadinejad, wearing a face of childlike bewilderment. He was dressed in imitation leather shoes and bulky white athletic socks, and a suit that looked as if it had come from a Soviet department store. Only a few days before, Ahmadinejad publicly called for the destruction of Israel. He and Chalabi, who is several inches taller, stood together for photos, then retired to a private room. At the time of Chalabi’s visit, Iran and the United States were engaged in a complicated diplomatic dance; the American ambassador in Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, had been authorized to open negotiations with the Iranians over their involvement in Iraq. Still, Chalabi insists he carried no note from the Iranians when he flew to Washington the next week. Officially, at least, Iran and the United States never got together. As ever, Chalabi had multiple agendas. One was to learn whether the Iranians would support his candidacy for the prime ministership (the same reason he traveled to the United States). It makes you wonder, in light of the Baer and Lang thesis: was Chalabi telling the Iranians, or asking them for permission? Or making a deal, based on his presumed leverage in the United States? The possibilities seemed endless. Chalabi played it cool. “The fact that Iraq’s neighbor is also a country that is majority Shia is no reason for us to accept any interference in our affairs or to compromise the integrity of Iraq,” he said after his meeting with Ahmadinejad. Richard Perle, Chalabi’s friend, discounted the idea that Chalabi might be a double agent. “Of course Chalabi has a relationship with the Iranians — you have to have a relationship with the Iranians in order to operate there,” Perle said. “The question is what kind of relationship. Is he fooling the Iranians or are the Iranians using him? I think Chalabi has been very shrewd in getting the things he has needed over the years out of the Iranians without giving anything in return.” For all of the skullduggery surrounding the trip to Iran, though, the greatest revelation came later in the day. When the meeting with Ahmadinejad ended, he asked Chalabi if there was anything he could to do to make his stay more comfortable. Chalabi said yes, in fact, there was: would he mind if he, Chalabi, took a tour of the Museum of Contemporary Art? So there we were, in the middle of the Axis of Evil, strolling past one of the finest collections of Western Modern art outside Europe and the United States: Matisse, Kandinsky, Rothko, Gauguin, Pollock, Klee, Van Gogh, five Warhols, seven Picassos and a sprawling garden of sculpture outside. The collection was assembled by Queen Farah, the shah’s wife, with the monarchy’s vast oil wealth. And now, with the mullahs in charge, the museum is largely forgotten. The day we were there, the gallery was all but empty. We had the museum’s enthusiastic English-speaking tour guide all to ourselves. “Thank you, thank you, for coming!” Noreen Motamed exclaimed, clapping her hands. We walked the empty halls. Chalabi moved through the place deliberately, nodding his head, pausing at the Degas and the Pissarro. “Wow,” Chalabi said before Jesus Rafael Soto’s painting “Canada.” “Look at that.” A retinue of Iranian officials walked with us, unmoved by the splendor. Ahmadinejad had stayed behind. For all of the furies that emanate from the halls of the Iranian government, it has taken fine care of Queen Farah’s collection. Indeed, about the only way you would know you were not in a museum in New York or London was the absence of the middle panel from Francis Bacon’s triptych “Two Figures Lying on a Bed With Attendant,” which depicts two naked men. “It is in the basement, covered,” Motamed said with disappointed eyes. Finally, we came across a pair of paintings by Marc Chagall, the 20th-century Modernist and painter of Jewish life. The display contained no mention of this fact. Chalabi gazed at the Chagalls for a time. Then, with a rueful smile, turned, to no one in particular, and said loudly: “Imagine that. They have two paintings by Marc Chagall in the middle of a museum in Tehran.” The Iranian officials seemed not to hear. 6. Baghdad, December 2005 A winter rain is falling. Chalabi is standing inside a tent in Sadr City, the vast Shiite slum of eastern Baghdad. He’s talking about his plans for restoring electricity, boosting oil production and beating the insurgency. People seem to be listening, but without enthusiasm. The violence here, worsening by the day, is washing away the hopes of ordinary Iraqis. Less and less seems possible anymore. People are retreating inward, you can see it in the glaze in their eyes. As Chalabi speaks, I pull aside one of the Iraqis who had been listening. What do you think of him? I ask. “Chalabi good good,” the Iraqi man says in halting English. Whom are you going to vote for? “The Shiite alliance, of course,” the Iraqi answers. “It is the duty of all Shiite people.” When the election came, Chalabi was wiped out. His Iraqi National Congress received slightly more than 30,000 votes, only one-quarter of 1 percent of the 12 million votes cast — not enough to put even one of them, not even Chalabi, in the new Iraqi Parliament. There was grumbling in the Chalabi camp. One of his associates said of the Shiite alliance: “We know they cheated. You know how we know? Because in one area we had 5,000 forged ballots, and when they were counted, we didn’t even get that many.” He shrugged. But the truth seemed clear enough: Chalabi was finished. Chalabi, who could plausibly claim that he, more than any other Iraqi, had made the election possible, had been shunned by the very people he had worked so hard to set free. No amount of deal making or of public relations foot-work, or of endorsements from friends, was able to save him. Chalabi may have helped bring democracy to Iraq, but it was democracy that finished him. He was, in the end, a parlor politician, someone from the world of his father or grandfather, or maybe of Victorian England: a brilliant negotiator and schemer who might settle a country’s problems over a cup of tea. But in Iraq, by late 2005, real power was no longer held by the parlor men, or by politicians at all. It was held by people like Moktada al-Sadr, populist leaders with a militia and a mass following in the street. The election results were a harbinger of the civil war. Iraqis voted almost entirely along sectarian and ethnic lines: Kurds for the big Kurdish parties, Sunnis for the Sunni parties and Shiites for the big Islamist Shiite alliance. Iraqis who tried to run on a secular platform — Chalabi, for instance, and his relative, Allawi, in another party — found themselves abandoned. Just two months later, in February of this year, following the destruction of the Askariya shrine, a holy Shiite temple in Samarra, the civil war began in earnest: Shiite gunmen, who had for years been restrained by the Shiite leadership in the face of the Sunni onslaught, were finally free to retaliate. Chalabi, shut out of the government, claimed that his sin was one of miscalculation. There was some truth to this: in all likelihood, Chalabi did not lose because he had been convicted of stealing millions of dollars from a Jordanian bank. Or because of the rumors swirling around Baghdad that he had looted the treasury. Or even because he was an exile close to the Americans. No: plenty of Westernized Iraqi exiles were elected to Parliament — among them Mowaffak al-Rubaie and Adil Abdul Mahdi — who, like Chalabi, didn’t have local followings and were trailed by similar questions. Practically speaking, Chalabi lost because he had broken from the big cleric-backed Shiite alliance that swept the election. “I had not realized how polarized Iraq had become,” Chalabi told me after the election. He might have gotten a seat in the cabinet, but that didn’t work out, either. That stung: the new Iraqi government is staffed with Chalabi’s old colleagues, many of them members of the exile alliance he once led. Jalal Talabani is president. Adil Abdul Mahdi, his boyhood friend, is vice president. Barham Salih, comrade of many years, is deputy prime minister. His old confidant Zalmay Khalilzad, who played a central role in forming the new government, is the American ambassador. In the end, they couldn’t — or wouldn’t — bring him aboard. “Chalabi really made a mess of things,” said one Iraqi political leader who now occupies a key post in the government. He declined to elaborate. As anticlimactic as was Chalabi’s fall, its real meaning lay in a paradox: democratic politics no longer mattered. For three years, the American-backed enterprise in Iraq rested on the assumption that the exercise of democratic politics would drain away the anger that was driving the violence. Instead of bullets, there would be ballots. But at the culmination of that long process — two constitutions, two elections and a referendum — the violence was worse than ever. It turns out that democratic politics does not stop violence; indeed, the elections, by polarizing Iraq’s sectarian and ethnic communities, may have helped push the country into civil war. Effectively, by the fall of 2006, the overwhelming majority of Iraq had no government at all. It was a failed state. Yes, there were Iraqis — Chalabi’s friends — who went to their jobs every day, toiling dutifully and not so dutifully inside the Green Zone, which every day seemed more and more divorced from the reality outside. In the Red Zone, as the real Iraq is called, Iraq was a nightmarish, apocalyptic place, where gunmen kidnapped children and sometimes killed them, where bodies turned up at the morgue peppered by holes from electric drills and corpses lay uncollected in the streets, along with the trash, for days on end. Ahmad Chalabi devoted his whole adult life to toppling a dictator and achieving power in the place of his birth. He felled the dictator, helping along a reckless gamble that wagered the future of a nation. The gamble failed, a nation imploded and Chalabi never ascended to the throne he so coveted. But in an odd turn of fortune, the throne no longer had anything to offer. 7. London, August 2006 The conversation is wrapping up. The talk turns to the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the machinations of those around him, what the future might hold. Chalabi, in an expansive mood, gets up, goes into a closet and brings out a note that Bob Baer, the C.I.A. agent, scribbled to him in that hotel lobby when the two men plotted a coup many years before. The talk, improbably, turns to memoirs; at the moment, Baer’s, “See No Evil,” was a best seller. I ask Chalabi, who is back on the couch, if it isn’t time that he write his own. He doesn’t hesitate to answer. “Too early!” Chalabi says. “Too early!”

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Ryan Shamrock's real name is Alesha Webb and she is a top less dancer form Houston ,Texas The WWE's first pick for the Mr Perfect gimmick was Terry Tayor Former Freebird Jimmy Garvin is now an airline pilot. D'Lo Brown began his career as "the head of security" for the gangstas in the smoke mountain wrestling.He later made his debut in the WWE as a member of the nation of Domination. Nitro Girl Fyre attended Arizona State University and used to be a mortgage home broker. The Warlord (real name Terry Szopinski) was force to retire from wrestling following a car accident in 1996 ECW'S Dawn Marie appeared in the original Austin Powers MTV sepecial as one of the go-go dancers and actually had a couple of speaking lines. Chris Chetti was the first man to graduate from ECW's House of Hardcore wrestling school Taz and Chris Chetti are cousins. Paul Wight played college basketball at Wichita State Nicole Bass's married name is Fuchs. Jerry Jarrett brought Rick Rude to Memphis and give him the nickname "Ravishing" Rick Rude still held half of the NWA Tag team title when he signed with the WWE (The NWA later claimed that The Rock 'n' Roll Express won back thous titles in a match that never took place) Rick Rude was for a short time managed by his sister Raven. Rude was the only foreign talent to make the finals of G-1 Tournament in Japan. That before Mark Henry joined the WWE ,he was actually sponsored by Titan Sports during the 1996 Olympic's in which he compeated in the sport of weight lifting Mark Henry and Pittsburgh Steeler Kevin Henry are cousins Gorgeous George (real name Stephanie Ballars) ,spent jail time as a teenager for burglaziring a home and slashing a girl's face with a broken beer bottle. Eddie Guerrero's father Gori invented the camel clutch. Terry Funk is Jason Harvey's Godfather. Ryan Shamrock's real name is Alesha Webb and she is a top less dancer form Houston ,Texas The WWE's first pick for the Mr Perfect gimmick was Terry Tayor Former Freebird Jimmy Garvin is now an airline pilot. D'Lo Brown began his career as "the head of security" for the gangstas in the smoke mountain wrestling.He later made his debut in the WWE as a member of the nation of Domination. Nitro Girl Fyre attended Arizona State University and used to be a mortgage home broker. The Warlord (real name Terry Szopinski) was force to retire from wrestling following a car accident in 1996 ECW'S Dawn Marie appeared in the original Austin Powers MTV sepecial as one of the go-go dancers and actually had a couple of speaking lines. Chris Chetti was the first man to graduate from ECW's House of Hardcore wrestling school Taz and Chris Chetti are cousins. Paul Wight played college basketball at Wichita State Nicole Bass's married name is Fuchs. Jerry Jarrett brought Rick Rude to Memphis and give him the nickname "Ravishing" Rick Rude still held half of the NWA Tag team title when he signed with the WWE (The NWA later claimed that The Rock 'n' Roll Express won back thous titles in a match that never took place) Rick Rude was for a short time managed by his sister Raven. Rude was the only foreign talent to make the finals of G-1 Tournament in Japan. some facts are wrong! im sorry dude im not this geeky i always copy crap !!!! doesn't every one!

Please guide me. I want to pursue CCIE? Hi, I am Ashish. I need guidance for pursuing my career in cisco line. Please guide me as i have no else to help me out with my queries. I have done my 12th. I was doing my mettalurgy engineering but as it was taking too much time to complete i dropped out & changed my major to BCA. I am doing Distance Learning BCA from Sikkim Manipal University(SMU). I am in my 2nd semester now. I have certifications in CCNA, MCP(server-2003) & Hardware & Networking. Currently i am pursuing MCSE track & will be completing RHCE with certification this march. I want to end up being a CCIE. I have doubts & no one to guide me. Please Guide me. * if i don't have any job experience & if i be a CCIE then what package can i expect? * if i only take the ccie training program & not the certification then what are the job opportunity the expected salary package to get? Thank you, Waiting in anticipation. Ashish. L spammer here also :sigh: tnx u dave for ur guidance. i will try to make a roadmap to ccie. maybe another 5 yrs i think. money is not a problem but dedication sure will be. overall cost for all 4 exams of ccnp will be? around 250 bucks for every exam right?