From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Fri May 28 2004 - 16:34:29 MDT
[Blunderov] Laden with interesting facts and amusingly written. (Did you
know that the Chalabi family had a reputation for mathematical genius?)
Best Regards
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/05/28_chalabi.html
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The Strange Case of Dr. Ahmed Chalabi
May 28, 2004
By Raul Groom
And so, in the midst of a half dozen or so other calamities that made its
final whimper almost inaudible, the maniacal neoconservative bid to take
over the world crashed into the dust. The event received a moderate amount
of play in the nation's print dailies, but it was and still is impossible
for our punditocracy to discuss the momentous development in the depth that
its importance demands, because the story is simply too complicated for the
media, in its modern state of pubescent infatuation with the glib and the
obvious, to take on.
This site, thankfully, with its feature-length columns and unusually
enlightened readership, resists still the incessant pull towards the Fear
Factorization of news and commentary. I shall therefore take up the
challenge of explaining the Chalabi situation here. </snip>
<snip>
The plan was perfect, except for one minor detail - the CIA could not be
brought on board. Besides Tenet's antipathy for Chalabi, a major war between
the White House and the CIA had broken out over the Bush Administration's
brazen outing, during the run-up to the Iraq war, of a deep-cover agency
operative named Valerie Plame. Thus the whole operation would have to be
conducted without the CIA's knowledge...
Predictably, the CIA eventually got wind of the plan. They waited for just
the right moment, and they leaked word to the authorities in Iraq that
Chalabi was passing U.S. secrets to the Iranians. Chalabi's offices were
raided, and his top aides were forced into hiding. The long, happy life of
Ahmed Chalabi, future ruler of the pan-Arab oil empire, was over. </snip>
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