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Mintpress News
March 30, 2018
As part of this CIA project, Rendon created and named the Iraqi National Congress and tapped his friend Ahmed Chalabi, the shady financier, to head the organization. Shortly after 9/11, the Pentagon handed the Rendon Group another big assignment: public relations for the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan.
The Intercept
March 23, 2018
Despite such doubts that the MEK's political wing, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, is any more reliable than Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress proved to be, spending lavishly on paid endorsements has earned the group a bipartisan roster of Washington politicians willing to sign up asÃâà...
Iraqi News
February 14, 2018
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – The Baghdad Operations Command denied on Wednesday media reports published on social networking websites about detonating a booby-trapped vehicle near the headquarters of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) party in western Baghdad. In a statement, a copy of whichÃâà...
The Intercept
November 5, 2017
It was huge news when White House Chief of Staff John Kelly appeared before the White House press corps two weeks ago to defend President Donald Trump's phone call to the widow of Army Sgt. La David T. Johnson. But Kelly's most peculiar remarks went largely unnoticed. U.S. soldiers, Kelly said,Ãâà...
World Politics Review
October 10, 2017
Jalal Talabani, the Kurdish leader and former president of Iraq, died earlier this month, five years after being incapacitated by a stroke and days after a controversial referendum on Kurdish independence. His life and legacy offer insights into the complex mix of leadership and identity in Kurdistan andÃâà...
Rudaw
October 8, 2017
The fiery reaction to the Kurdistani referendum exposes the cruel dilemma of international relations that I call the Hotel California doctrine: 'you can check out but you can never leave' from the Eagles song. Breaking up is hard to do in practice but peoples can go their own way in theory. Squaring the circleÃâà...
Consortium News
September 10, 2017
In both cases, there was evidence that the “system” was being gamed – by the Iraqi National Congress (INC) in pushing for the Iraq War and by pro-rebel “activists” promoting “regime change” in Syria – but those warnings were ignored. Instead, the flood of propagandistic claims overwhelmed what littleÃâà...
Iraq Oil Report
August 28, 2017
BASRA - Assad Abdulameer al-Edani, a member of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) nominated by the new Hikma movement, was made the new governor of Basra on Sunday, two and a half weeks after the former governor resigned under a cloud of corruption charges. Hikma (Arabic for "Wisdom") is aÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
July 17, 2017
Both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations allied with Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (INC). The INC's false intelligence regarding Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction, which the New York Times and other prominent media outlets reflexively circulated, was one ofÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
January 27, 2017
A member of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), Chalabi and other Iraqi exiles, appeared to be motivated by the prospect of taking over from Saddam. Ignored by the Clinton administration, they had aligned themselves with the Republican Party. When George W Bush and his administration took office, theÃâà...
New York Times
November 3, 2015
A 2006 report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that “false information” from sources affiliated with the Iraqi National Congress “was used to support key intelligence community assessments on Iraq and was widely distributed in intelligence products prior to the war.” It found that the groupÃâà...
The Guardian
November 3, 2015
He was instrumental in the passage of the Iraq Liberation Act, which channelled close to $100m to opposition groups in the late 1990s, principally his political body, the Iraqi National Congress (INC). None of the information provided was corroborated, an omission for which Chalabi remained unapologeticÃâà...
New York Times
June 30, 2014
His exile-based, C.I.A.-financed Iraqi National Congress never built much of a grass-roots following in Iraq, and he suffered from the Americans' growing unpopularity as the war dragged on. His role in promoting what many now view as concocted evidence of weapons of mass destruction under SaddamÃâà...
