More information on the Chalabi Smackdown

[kentuck]

I don't know if this has been posted earlier....if so, ignore.
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http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=7769

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It appears the Americans are going after a variety of paperwork. He has an enormous amount of documents in his possession, which the Americans allowed and encouraged him to have for several reasons.

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So what really is the nature of the documents in the INC's possession? Are these mostly files seized from the Mukhabarat?

The INC has an enormous amount of files from the Mukhabarat building. It was flooded after the fall of Baghdad and virtually became a lake. There was a lot of material, thousands and thousands of pages. I saw some of it stacked up to dry at INC headquarters when I was there.

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Help with transportation and movement of personnel. Particularly before Saddam fell, Chalabi could not operate in the north of Iraq without the Iranians giving him assistance. The Turkish border was shut; the Syrian border was not one you can use reliably. So the primary means for moving back and forth was through Iran. So one had to have relations with the Iranians. And that means you had to have relations with Khamenei and Rafsanjani. Because they control the Ministry of Intelligence and the Revolutionary Guard.

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[xchrom]

1. they knew chalabi was a shady character

before they put him in there -- and if you ask me that's why they put him in there, birds of a feather after all -- so now they get what they ask for.
bushco built this disaster -- they deserve this disaster.