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Thread ID: 13801 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2004-05-20
2004-05-20 12:34 | User Profile
First order of business is to find and shred all cancelled checks from the OSP...
[url]http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5204911[/url] U.S. Troops Raid Chalabi's Headquarters in Iraq Thu May 20, 2004 07:21 AM ET
By Luke Baker BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops raided a house used by Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi and searched his party offices in Baghdad on Thursday, piling pressure on the former Pentagon favorite now increasingly shunned by Washington.
Squads of soldiers, backed by Iraqi police, sealed off the neighborhood around the headquarters of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) and a nearby house used by Chalabi for meeting officials, removing computers, files and other equipment.
INC spokesman Haider Moussawi said the troops also wanted to arrest two party members but were told by Chalabi they were not present. Chalabi, who returned from exile after the fall of Saddam Hussein as a potential future leader, was not detained.
"They have been putting political pressure on us for weeks. It's part of an attempted character assassination and it's politically motivated, but it won't work," Moussawi said.
"When someone stands up independently and puts his views firmly it appears the Americans don't like it, it scares them."
Moussawi said he did not know what the raid was related to, but called it a worrying development. "They think they can do whatever they want. They didn't even have a warrant."
U.S. officials said on Tuesday the Pentagon had cut off some $340,000 a month in funding to Chalabi's INC party, payments that were made in part for intelligence gathered by the INC.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said the decision "was made in light of the process of transferring sovereignty to the Iraqi people."
"We felt it was no longer appropriate for us to continue funding in that fashion," he told a U.S. Senate hearing.
"There's been some very valuable intelligence that's been gathered through that process that's been very valuable for our forces. But we will seek to obtain that in the future through normal intelligence channels."
U.S. officials have said they had doubts about the intelligence the INC provided and about whether Chalabi was motivated chiefly by a desire for power. An exile who lived abroad for more than four decades, Chalabi was convicted in absentia of bank fraud in 1992 by a military court in Jordan, where he had founded a bank that failed. He says the charges were politically motivated.
The Pentagon flew him into Iraq with a group of followers after the U.S.-led invasion last year, giving him an opportunity to establish a political base.
But he has struggled to drum up support and surveys in Iraq have ranked him as one of the least-liked politicians.
Chalabi has many critics elsewhere in the U.S. government, notably at the CIA, which suspected his group may have been penetrated by Saddam's agents before the war and which questioned the intelligence information it provided.
The State Department also had its doubts and resented the Pentagon's support for Chalabi. State Department officials questioned whether he could emerge as a national leader.
In its prewar role, Chalabi's INC directed Iraqi defectors to the U.S. government to provide intelligence that critics now say was largely spun to prod the United States into taking action against Baghdad.
U.S. officials said in February an Iraqi who was the source for Washington's prewar claim that Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs had fabricated the allegation. The man was introduced to U.S. intelligence by Chalabi's group.
No stockpiles of banned or unconventional weapons have been found in Iraq.
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2004-05-20 12:41 | User Profile
Weisbrot,
[QUOTE]Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said the decision "was made in light of the process of transferring sovereignty to the Iraqi people." [/QUOTE]
Lying Jew, but I repeat myself.
Wolfie knows the real reason for this doesn't have a damn thing to do with sovereignty, but with Chalabi playing footsie with the Iranians. Chalabi has added considerably to his knowlege of being a swindler by working with the Jews.
2004-05-20 12:43 | User Profile
Now that the tide of war has turned against the US our bought traitors have turned on their master. Our Stalingrad is unfolding before our eyes. Gen. Paulus, er Rabbi Bremer will go down with the 6th Army, er, coalition forces.
After the news of yesterday, Israel opening up on unarmed women and children then the US killing 40 people in a wedding party, and erotic pictures of our whores, er female solders poising with the dead we are washed up as a nation. The other sane powers will realize that the US is a mad dog that must be destroyed if civilization is to endure. Expect nuclear bombs to begin to rain down on major population centers. Our enemies that are truely within our gates will then begin to rape, rob and torture us. Just as we have done to the rest of the world.
The end is very, very near. Store food and ammunition.
2004-05-20 13:00 | User Profile
From 11/03 WAR AFTER THE WAR by GEORGE PACKER
[url]http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031124fa_fact1[/url] To this day, key policymakers maintain their faith in the Pentagonââ¬â¢s original plan. According to a senior Administration official, not long ago in Washington, Cheney approached Powell, stuck a finger in his chest, and said, ââ¬ÅIf you hadnââ¬â¢t opposed the I.N.C. and Chalabi, we wouldnââ¬â¢t be in this mess.ââ¬Â But one Pentagon official acknowledged that his agency was responsible for the debacle. ââ¬ÅIt was ridiculous,ââ¬Â he said. ââ¬ÅRummy and Wolfowitz and Feith did not believe the U.S. would need to run post-conflict Iraq. Their plan was to turn it over to these exiles very quickly and let them deal with the messes that came up. Garner was a fall guy for a bad strategy. He was doing exactly what Rummy wanted him to do. It was the strategy that failed.ââ¬Â
2004-05-20 15:18 | User Profile
The reason that the USA "enjoys" making war on others so much is that we haven't had a war, in country, since the revolutionary war and the American people really don't know what war is all about.
If an American Mother or Father were to see their three year old daughter with a missing leg or arm then they would stop what the Zionists and American are doing in Palestine and Iraq.
I don't know if you people know this but the "interrogators" that were in Iraq were Zionist from Palestine and they killed over 3,000 Iraqis which they buried in the desert after killing them (I hope they were already dead).
The biggest contracts in Iraq are being given to the state of Israel, anyone knows why? ,,,,,,,, Like vultures the Jews fly down to eat what others have killed.