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Chalabi busted by US troops?

Another Bush created monster. They relied on this guy for false WMD info, and the guy has been using America as his bitch.
It was funny, after the invasion he flew in and expected to be greeted as a hero, and had to be whisked away before he was lynched by his own people.
His absence from the scene will be a stabilizing development.
 
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"Bremer," he said, "has lost his mind."

The raids illuminated a huge rupture in what had been the Bush adminstration's most important personal and political relationship in Iraq. Mr. Chalabi, a longtime exile leader and now a member of the Iraqi Governing Council, played a crucial role in persuading the administration that Saddam Hussein had to be removed from power. But he has since become a lightning rod for critics of the Bush administration, who say the United States relied on him too heavily for prewar intelligence that has since proved faulty.

In recent weeks, the relationship has further soured as Mr. Chalabi has openly criticized Mr. Bremer and has advocated a more expansive definition of the sovereignty which Iraq will assume on June 30, including full Iraqi control of its armed forces and oil revenues.

In recent months, Mr. Chalabi has also criticized Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations official who is organizing an Iraqi government to take control of the country on July 1 and whose efforts have been embraced by the White House. And he has objected to Mr. Bremer's efforts to leave the governing council out of an investigation of alleged corruption in the United Nations oil-for-food program for Iraq.

Aides close to Mr. Chalabi say the animosity between him and Mr. Bremer has grown so severe that the Iraqi has taken to skipping Iraqi Governing Council meetings that Mr. Bremer attends.

The Iraqi National Congress revealed earlier this week that the American government had decided to halt monthly $335,000 payments to the group.

Mr. Chalabi's group has received at least $27 million in United States financing in the past four years, an Iraqi National Congress official said earlier this week. This includes $335,000 a month as part of a classified program through the Defense Intelligence Agency, since the summer of 2002, to help gather intelligence in Iraq.

Internal reviews by the United States government have found that much of the information provided as part of the classified program before American forces invaded Iraq last year was useless, misleading or even fabricated.
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Salem Chalabi, nephew of Mr. Chalabi and head of the Iraqi war crimes tribunal, told The A.P. that his uncle told him by telephone that Iraqi and American authorities "entered his home and put the guns to his head in a very humiliating way that reminds everyone of the conduct of the former regime."

Ali Sarraf, the finance director of the Iraqi National Congress, describe a tableau of brutality. "We offered them the keys and they showed us guns," he said. "They kicked the door down."

Standing amid the debris in the organization's offices, he said: "Bremer is panicking. This is about settling things with Dr. Chalabi."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/i...00&en=916b3fd47b9ba5e3&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
 
They held guns to his head?? Chalabi fed into all those neo-con dreams for the New Improved Middle East and told them what they wanted to hear. But he's been a very naughty boy. Apparently he's been "playing footsie" with the Iranians too.

Top Bush administration officials have been briefed on intelligence indicating that Chalabi and some of his top aides have supplied Iran with 'sensitive' information on the American occupation in Iraq," Mark Hosenball wrote. "U.S. officials say that electronic intercepts of discussions between Iranian leaders indicate that Chalabi and his entourage told Iranian contacts about American political plans in Iraq. There are also indications that Chalabi has provided details of U.S. security operations.

Newsweek, May 2004
 
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But the current break stems from much more serious allegations. These include the charge that the INC intentionally misled the Central Intelligence Agency on the extent of Saddam Hussein's unconventional weapons programme before the war, and the growing belief among some US officials that Mr Chalabi is hindering investigations into corruption in the UN's oil-for-food programme.

Suspicions that Mr Chalabi had fed the CIA faulty intelligence in the months preceding war have circulated in Washington and Baghdad almost since Mr Hussein was toppled, but there have been much more public accusations recently.

Colin Powell, whose State Department has always been dismissive of the INC, said in an interview with NBC News at the weekend that he now believed the CIA was intentionally misled on claims Iraq was developing mobile biological weapons laboratories. "It turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong, and in some cases deliberately misleading," Mr Powell said.
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Not really news - reports of carefully selected intelligence provided by Chalabi have been around for the last six months or so. Why is this a big deal now? Sovereignty in Iraq or elections in America?
 
Dubya's non-existent plans for Iraq are now shown to be threadbare.
Everyone seems to be relying on this Algerian, Brahimi, who arises from a proto-military government that has had its iron heel on the throat of the legitimate Islamic majority for over 10 years. He has named nobody yet, and there seems to be nobody to name who is younger than 80.

Clever-dick Chalabi seems to be on his way to prison, clutching Saddam's Baath-list to his bosom.

There's nobody left. That's the fact.

A "handover" that revered BBC journalist John Simpson declared to be "meaningless" earlier this month, is now revealed to completely empty.

How long will it be before the American public, shocked to the core by the prison-porn realises that the War on Turr is a load of baloney and argues for the impeachment of the President and the dismantlement of his regime?

Even Senator George Allen, smiling for all he was worth on Newsnight tonight, could not put a brave face on it. He fizzled out, blithering something about "constables and sherriffs" providing the Presidential material of the future in Iraq.

The Emperor has no clothes!
 
I've lost count of the times I've shouted at the radio/TV for failing to mention Chalabi's earlier career as an embezzler. Just like Jay Garner's background as a pro-Israel weapons dealer and Paul Bremer being a Kissinger Associate, this crucial detail was simply ignored. (Though no mention of the positions held by family members and whether they all get to keep them).
Well, no more it seems. Now that Chalabi is officially a naughty boy we can now be told loudly and clearly by the BBC about his conviction and 22 year jail sentence in Jordan.
 
demon said:
I've lost count of the times I've shouted at the radio/TV for failing to mention Chalabi's earlier career as an embezzler. Just like Jay Garner's background as a pro-Israel weapons dealer and Paul Bremer being a Kissinger Associate, this crucial detail was simply ignored. (Though no mention of the positions held by family members and whether they all get to keep them).
Well, no more it seems. Now that Chalabi is officially a naughty boy we can now be told loudly and clearly by the BBC about his conviction and 22 year jail sentence in Jordan.
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And knowing that this administration used his disinformation, knowing it was false. If they claim they didn't know it was false, they are admitting to gross negligence.
They are suffering from spin fatigue. There isn't any story that covers all of the serpentine twists of this misadventure.
As my dad used to say, "You can't fit 5 pounds of crap in a 3 pound bag."

demon, you must have the same "liberal media" we have.
 
The ineptitude of this administration, and defense department in particular, is entirely mind boggling. With Chalabi as fiasco du jour.

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fishbob said:
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I thought Chalabi was the Bush admin's made guy in Iraq. This will be (48 hour rule) a very interesting development.
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The Chalabi stink has been brewing for a long time. Interesting details may unfold; I suppose the stench could get worse. But even as it stands now, this is yet another major gaffe by this band of bumbling buffoons called the defense department.
 
Supposedly they are investigating who gave Chalabi all these intelligence goodies...

Things could get very interesting if it was Wolfowitz or one of his top staff
 
Just an oddball thought...could the US Govt. decided to go after Chabili now, during the prison scandal, figuring that with the US population attention turned to that event, anything Chabili might do (or say) will either be discredited or ignored by the hoo-hah currently generated?

Just a WAG on my part...read one to many Tom clancy novels in my youth..:p
 
subgenius:
"demon, you must have the same "liberal media" we have."

Yes, and mores the pity for it.

Our "liberal media" are now quite happy to tell of the crimes that make him look bad but are reluctant to mention the distortions and fabrications that the US/UK Administrations glady accepted from him in their eagerness to attack Iraq.

It`s noticable here that they are freely calling him a convicted embezzler but still not mentioned is his disgraceful boast concerning his lies about WMDs..."We were heroes in error"...or in other words, "the lies have finally caught up with us".
 
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