Our friends in Baghdad

Here's a good one, via Atrios:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, according to U.S. military intelligence.

Jamal Jafaar Mohammed's seat in parliament gives him immunity from prosecution. Washington says he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq.

But, we shouldn't be too upset. After all, Ahmed Chalabi, America's favorite Iraqi, was convicted of bank fraud in Jordan, and he's still holding forth in Iraq.