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 Ahmed Chalabi

Clear signs of Ahmed Chalabi's "Fall from Grace" with the Bush administration were noted in a May 2004 story in Newsweek which reported that a White House official had accused Chalabi of "playing footsie" with Iranians.

"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." [1]

Ahead of the June 30, 2004, transfer of 'sovereignty' from the U.S to an interim Iraqi administration, it was reported that both the U.S. administrator and the United Nations envoy to Iraq saw no role for Chalabi. The Washington Post also reported that the U.S. government was likely to end the $340,000 monthly contribution to the Iraqi National Congress (INC).

Dr. Ahmed Chalabi (also spelled "Ahmad") is part of a three-man leadership council for the Iraqi opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), which was created at the behest of the U.S. government for the purpose of fomenting the overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Chalabi, a secular Iraqi Shiite Muslim and mathematician by training, previously served as chairman of the Petra Bank in Jordan, where he engaged in various cloak-and-dagger operations that ended abruptly in August 1989 when he fled the country "under mysterious circumstances" and in 1992 was convicted in absentia for embezzlement, fraud and currency- trading irregularities, sentencing him to 22 years' hard labour. [1],[2]

August 2003: a petition is circulating among Jordanian deputies to hold a special session soon in the 110-member house to demand the government take legal steps to seek Chalabi's extradition from Iraq. [3]

Given the seriousness of the charges and the apparent determination of the Jordanian government to continue to press them despite immense U.S. pressure, it is hard to conclude that they are anything short of well-founded. This has led some observers to suggest that Chalabi is part of a move towards a US-sponsored kleptocracy that would supervise transfer of assets from Iraqi citizens to private Post-war Iraq contractors. He certainly appears to be qualified for such a job.

In March 2002, Seymour Hersh reported in The New Yorker that "A dispute over Chalabi's potential usefulness preoccupies the bureaucracy" within the U.S. government, "as the civilian leadership in the Pentagon continues to insist that only the INC can lead the opposition. At the same time, a former Administration official told me, 'Everybody but the Pentagon and the office of the Vice-President wants to ditch the INC.' The INC's critics note that Chalabi, despite years of effort and millions of dollars in American aid, is intensely unpopular today among many elements in Iraq. 'If Chalabi is the guy, there could be a civil war after Saddam's overthrow,' one former CIA operative told me. A former high-level Pentagon official added, 'There are some things that a President can't order up, and an internal opposition is one.'" [4]

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Ahmad Chalabi

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... Ahmed Chalabi -- a former exile who played a key role before the 2003 US invasion -- and some smaller groups is the main rival to Maliki's coalition. ...
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They will settle for nothing less than an Iranian Ahmed Chalabi
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... Ahmed Chalabi -- a former exile who played a key role before the 2003 US invasion -- and some smaller groups is the main rival to Maliki's coalition. ...
Partners of the fund include Zaab Sethna, who served as a political consultant to the Iraqi opposition and Ahmed Chalabi, as well as being the spokesman of ...
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... essentially debunking the phony "intelligence" coming out of the Judy Miller-Ahmed Chalabi lie factory as fast as it was produced. ...
I suspected that many of these individuals were essentially Iranian agents -- including the opportunistic "man for all factions" Ahmad Chalabi, ...
Contributers included Ahmed Chalabi - who left Iraq in 1958, was convicted for bringing down Jordan's Petra Bank (a conviction he claimed was politically ...
Aram Roston: Lobbyist Charles Black, now embroiled in controversy as a senior advisor to John McCain, was among those who aided Ahmed Chalabi's deceptive ...
It was only later that we realized that Ahmed Chalabi who was one of the Pentagon's favourite boys was supplying all of the fraudulent information of ...
Obama deserved the prize because "he took the poison out of the US relationship with the world, and especially the Muslim world," said Ahmad Chalabi, ...
Judy Miller teaches ballet in a neighboring town, and Ahmed Chalabi runs a local convenience store. Just how were they involved in the war? ...
Those figures include former Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari, whose term in 2005 was marked by Iraq's slide into sectarian war, and Ahmad Chalabi, ...
... another, with a checkered past, has shown a remarkable inability to win votes (Ahmed Chalabi) and bodyguards of yet another were convicted of killing ...
Aram Roston: Lobbyist Charles Black, now embroiled in controversy as a senior advisor to John McCain, was among those who aided Ahmed Chalabi's deceptive ...
I soon discovered the true relationship between Dr. Ahmad Chalabi and the Americans from the way he stood up for Iraqi interests and confronted Ambassador ...
... to our most closely guarded secrets, via Ahmed Chalabi, in the days of the Bush administration, it's hard to make that case with absolute assurance. ...
... and has been discussed - according to Western diplomatic sources - with the US-sponsored Iraqi National Congress and its leader Ahmed Chalabi, ...
It has several Iraq 'specialists' including Rend Francke, a Jewish Iraqi expatriate who, along with the infamous Ahmed Chalabi, abetted Bush-Cheney-Powell- ...
And the sources of such an "estimate" were people like Ahmed Chalabi who had a vested interest in the overthrow of Saddam's government. ...
... COINTELPRO, and Iran-Contra, and skepticism of the Bush administration based on Ahmed Chalabi, faked intelligence, and warrantless wiretapping is a hell ...
... the National Congress headed by Dr. Ahmad Chalabi (who did not win even a single seat in parliament in the previous elections); and an assortment of ...
The release says that Rendon Group had no relationship with the Iraqi National Congress (INC) or Ahmad Chalabi, and points out that a Pentagon Inspector ...
Baghdad, Iraq-Even though Ahmad Chalabi apparently lost badly in last month's parliamentary election here, the former Pentagon favorite is still likely to ...
... war with the Soviet Union, Saudi government officials, and members of the neocon-linked Iraqi National Congress, including its leader Ahmad Chalabi. ...
The Rendon Group had no relationship with the Iraqi National Congress or Ahmad Chalabi in the several years immediately prior to the start of the Iraq war. ...
... the National Congress headed by Dr. Ahmad Chalabi (who did not win even a single seat in parliament in the previous elections); and an assortment of ...
"It gets worse," Olbermann continued, complaining that the Rendon Group had worked with Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi exile leader whose propaganda had helped ...
And what happened was that the CIA paid Rendon about $350000 a month, and he would take his cut out of that, and then he'd turn it over to Ahmed Chalabi, ...
Former Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, who leads the secular Iraqi National Congress, is also in the new alliance, as is former Prime Minister Ibrahim ...
... why the administration has hired the Rendon Group, whose marketing job for Ahmed Chalabi worked out so well, to vet "embedded" reporters in Afghanistan. ...
Also the Chairman of Iraqi National Congress Ahmad Chalabi and the Vice-Speaker of the country's Parliament Khalid al-Attiyah took part in the ceremony.
A compromise candidate could be Ahmed Chalabi, the shadowy former Pentagon ally who is now close to Iran, or Qasem Daoud, a former national-security adviser ...
The US military authorized the arrest and interrogation last year of a top aide to Ahmed Chalabi on suspicion that the aide served as a ...


 


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