More on Chalabi, his "Christian aide", GOP Charlie Black, & hackers .....

[Gloria]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/06/wirq06.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/06/ixworld.html

Iraqi judge orders arrest of American aide to Chalabi
By Colin Freeman, Charles Laurence and Damien Mcelroy
(Filed: 06/06/2004)

An arrest warrant has been issued for Ahmed Chalabi's right-hand man in Baghdad, the American consultant Francis Brooke, who tried to stop the recent raid on the politician's headquarters in the Iraqi capital.

Ahmed Chalabi

In the latest in a series of damaging blows for Mr Chalabi, an Iraqi judge said that Mr Brooke had obstructed the Iraqi police. He is believed to have returned to Washington, leaving his former master to tackle claims that his Iraqi National Congress passed American secrets to Iran.

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Mr Brooke, who is an evangelical Christian, has worked with Mr Chalabi since 1990 - first as a consultant paid by the CIA and most recently as a consultant for BKSH and Associates, a company run by Charlie Black, a Republican Party veteran.

Reports from Iran suggest that Mr Brooke acted as an intermediary between Washington and Teheran, passing letters between the two governments, which do not have bilateral relations.

Yesterday, Mr Brooke could not be reached for comment, although a colleague in Baghdad said that the arrest warrant was part of a politically-motivated campaign to discredit Mr Chalabi and his followers.

Mr Brooke has boasted of engineering the war on Iraq by providing America the evidence it was seeking on weapons of mass destruction. "I'm a smart man," he told The New Yorker magazine last week. "I saw what they wanted, and I adapted my strategy."

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Last night, it emerged that on the same day as the raid, computer files belonging to the British consultant investigating the oil-for-food scandal were destroyed by hackers and a back-up databank in his Baghdad office wiped out.

Claude Hankes Drielsma, a British businessman and long-time acquaintance of Mr Chalabi, accused America and Britain of mounting a "dirty tricks" campaign to obstruct his inquiry.

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[Submariner]

1. "Mr Brooke, who is an evangelical Christian,"

We have to get rid of this god stuff that has permeated societies worldwide. These jesus-freaks somehow feel, probably through the imagined word of their god, that they are the righteous leaders and shapers of society. And they are wrong. Religion truly is the root of all evil. Stop teaching the children anything about gods expcept in a historical sense.

Look at chimpy for proof of the disastrous results of a jesus-freak in power....and out of control.

[salin]

2. HUGE Brooke is a big part of the picture

has been his handler in georgetown - started out as doing pr for chalabi now is his closest american associate (and the one who arranges Chalabi to be all over dc (and the news))

Huge huge huge.

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3. Gloria

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[Gloria]

4. Kick --this info is important

Mods...sorry, is the limit 4 paragrpaphs?

This story was actually two different stories rolled into one....so I put the last two p's in about the hacking ....
Sorry