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	Ahmed Chalabi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chalabi is also part of a three-man executive council for the umbrella Iraqi opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), created in 1992 for the purpose of fomenting the overthrow of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
		Chalabi is said to have had political contacts within the Project for the New American Century, most notably with Paul Wolfowitz, a student of nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter and Richard Perle who was introduced to Chalabi by Wohlstetter in 1985.
		Chalabi is the scion of a prominent Shi'a family, one of the wealthy power elite of Baghdad, where he was born.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahmed_Chalabi (2152 words)

	village voice > news > Recalling Ahmed Chalabi by Kareem Fahim
		Chalabi's relationship with key figures in the Bush administration has been noted often, and his supporters are said to include Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, and especially Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz.
		Recent reports suggest that Chalabi may have found a post as an adviser to the post-war finance ministry, seemingly a useful place for the MIT and University of Chicago-educated mathematician, whose business experience includes starting what was, at one time, Jordan's second largest bank.
		Chalabi was so well connected, says Fahad Al-Fanak, a columnist for the Jordanian daily Al-Ra'i, that he finds Chalabi's claims to have been the victim of a political conspiracy hard to swallow.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0315/fahim.php (1278 words)

	Ahmad Chalabi and me. By Christopher Hitchens
		Chalabi has never made any secret of his closeness to Tehran, and he operated a headquarters there, with the full encouragement of the U.S. government, during the run-up to the intervention.
		Chalabi says in his own defense that it's necessary to keep good relations with the Sistani bloc and that the ayatollah has been very helpful: most particularly in his fatwa against private revenge by those Shiites who lost relatives, or limbs, to the hateful former regime.
		Chalabi had been saying this for six years by the time I met him in 1998: Those who now say that the whole mess is his fault are panicking and scapegoating, as well as attributing superhuman powers to one individual.
	www.slate.com /id/2101345 (2098 words)

	How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons - Salon
		Meanwhile, administration neoconservatives, once united behind Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress he founded, are now split, as new doubts about his long-stated commitment to a secular Iraqi democracy with ties to Israel, and fears that he is cozying up to his Shiite co-religionists in Iran, begin to emerge.
		"Ahmed Chalabi is a treacherous, spineless turncoat," says L. Marc Zell, a former law partner of Douglas Feith, now the undersecretary of defense for policy, and a former friend and supporter of Chalabi and his aspirations to lead Iraq.
		Chalabi met with Zell and other neoconservatives many times from the mid-1990s on in London, Turkey, and the U.S. Zell outlines what Chalabi was promising the neocons before the Iraq war: "He said he would end Iraq's boycott of trade with Israel, and would allow Israeli companies to do business there.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2004/05/04/chalabi/index.html (1039 words)

	How Ahmed Chalabi Conned the Neocons
		Chalabi appears to have recognized that the neocons, while ruthless, realistic and effective in bureaucratic politics, were remarkably ignorant about the situation in Iraq, and willing to buy a fantasy of how the country's politics worked.
		Chalabi's father, Abdul Haydi Chalabi, was a member of the council of ministers of King Faisal II, whose short-lived Hashemite dynasty was installed by the British in 1921.
		Chalabi left northern Iraq the next month, and the CIA cut off its funding for the INC. It was at this time that Chalabi turned his attention to the American neoconservatives.
	fairuse.1accesshost.com /news1/salon8.html (5980 words)

	Ahmed Chalabi
		Ahmed Chalabi was the head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), a group of Iraqi exiles brought together and funded by the U.S. government.
		Chalabi is charming and erudite, coming from a family that held several high positions in the Iraqi government before Hussein came along.
		Chalabi says that his bank was utterly on the up-and-up, and the audit, investigation, and prosecution were politically motivated.
	www.nndb.com /people/645/000024573 (1017 words)

	The Truth About Ahmed Chalabi
		Ahmed himself was one of the most influential businessmen in the country, esteemed by local entrepreneurs for his readiness to issue credit, and enjoying close links to powerful members of the royal family.
		Ahmed left the country two weeks later, announcing that he was going "on holiday", although rumors persist in the middle east that he had crossed the Syrian border in the trunk of his friend Tamara Daghistani's car.
		Chalabi took partial revenge on his Jordanian tormentors by fomenting a December 1991 "60 Minutes" story accusing King Hussein of colluding with Saddam, but by now he was immersed in politics carving out a leading role in the anti-Saddam Iraqi opposition.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0520-14.htm (4415 words)

	Ahmed Chalabi - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Ahmed Chalabi (also spelled "Ahmad") is part of a three-man leadership council for the Iraqi opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), which was created at the behest of the U.S. government for the purpose of fomenting the overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
		Of course, the fact that Chalabi is now scarcely mentioned as a possible political force in Iraq is barely acknowledged by the hawks who still insist, albeit with less conviction, that things are going their way and that there is no reason to panic.
		Chalabi even participated in a secret Defense Policy Board meeting just a few days after the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon in which the main topic of discussion, according to the 'Wall Street Journal', was how 9/11 could be used as a pretext for attacking Iraq.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Ahmed_Chalabi (1728 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Profile: Ahmed Chalabi
		Ahmed Chalabi's appointment to the new Iraqi government is something of a revival for a man once touted at the Pentagon as a future president of Iraq.
		And after decades in exile, Mr Chalabi was one of the first Iraqis to be flown by the Pentagon to Iraq during the 2003 invasion, supposedly to allow him to consolidate his political base in the country.
		Mr Chalabi was also blamed for advising the Provisional Coalition Authority to dissolve the Iraqi army and the Baath party - two decisions that were criticised by many as responsible for the breakdown in law and order and alienating large sectors of Iraqi society.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2925785.stm (839 words)

	Ahmad Chalabi Biography
		Chalabi was a math professor at the American University in Beirut until 1977.
		Dr. Ahmad Chalabi was leader of Iraqi National Congress until April of 1999, when he was demoted to the rank of an ordinary member.
		The ruling Sunnis of Saudi Arabia distrust Chalabi in part because he is Shi'a, a branch of Islam whose adherents make up just over half of Iraq's 22 million inhabitants.
	www.iraqinews.com /people_chalabi.shtml (377 words)

	Ahmed Chalabi: Fall from Grace - SourceWatch
		Clear signs of Ahmed Chalabi's "Fall from Grace" with the Bush administration were noted in a May 2004 story in Newsweek which reported that a White House official had accused Chalabi of "playing footsie" with Iranians.
		Chalabi told the Baghdad station chief of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security that the United States was reading the communications traffic of the Iranian spy service, one of the most sophisticated in the Middle East.
		Chalabi's ties with Iran have been known (and winked at) for years; claims that he was sharing sensitive US info with them have been out there for at least a few months.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Ahmed_Chalabi:_Fall_from_Grace (2286 words)

	Chalabi's road to victory? - The Washington Times: Commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Chalabi, barely a year since he returned to his homeland after 45 years of exile, has emerged as the power behind a vacant throne.
		Chalabi's aides hint his treasure trove of Mukhabarat documents includes names of American "agents of influence" on Saddam's payroll, as well as a number of Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV news reporters who worked for Iraqi intelligence.
		Chalabi's fast track to power is not derailed and he becomes prime minister in July, the president won't be able to fire him unless his two deputies agree.
	washingtontimes.com /commentary/20040401-090721-7961r.htm (1049 words)

	Polygraph Tests In Chalabi Probe - CBS News
		Chalabi has denied passing any classified information to Iran, and his supporters assert that the CIA is trying to destroy the former exile.
		Chalabi was once held in high enough esteem to sit behind first lady Laura Bush during the state of the union address.
		Chalabi is still active and visible on the scene in Iraq where he is a member of the Iraqi Governing Council.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/05/20/iraq/main618637.shtml (703 words)

	Informed Comment
		Although Chalabi maintains that the conviction was politically motivated (he claims Jordan had a tacit alliance with his enemy, Saddam), the bank's Switzerland branch was audited and what auditors found was not pretty.
		Chalabi's latter move was typically sleazy and implausible (the Americans are better at vetting people than to allow a recent Saddam spy to become Minister of Defense), and was extremely troubling.
		Chalabi was charged in May of 2004 with having passed sensitive US intelligence (the fact that the US had broken Iranian codes) to Iran, but the charges were ultimately quietly dropped and the prosecuting judge shunted off to desk work.
	www.juancole.com /2005/01/chalabi-to-be-arrested-political.html (1125 words)

	AHMED CHALABI: The Janos Kadar of Iraq
		Chalabi, who was 13 when he fled from Iraq, spent his youth in Jordan, Lebanon, the UK and the USA, where he obtained a Master's Degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago.
		Spokesmen of Chalabi, however, strongly denied the allegations of embezzlement and accused the late King Hussein of being an agent of Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency and acting at the instance of Saddam Hussein to defame Chalabi because he had started an underground movement in Iraq to have Saddam Hussein overthrown and restore democracy.
		Chalabi seems to have convinced Rumsfeld and Perle that it was his Shia followers in Baghdad, who had come out in the streets and hailed the entry of American troops.
	www.saag.org /papers7/paper659.html (1825 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact
		Chalabi told me that he would have preferred to sell the war to the American people on philosophical grounds, as a fight against genocidal tyranny and in favor of bringing democracy to the Arab world, but that this approach was rejected by the Bush Administration.
		Chalabi heads the finance committee of the Iraqi Governing Council, a U.S.-appointed group of twenty-five people representing Iraq’s religious and ethnic factions; as a result, he was able to install the oil, finance, and trade ministers, as well as the governor of Iraq’s Central Bank.
		When Chalabi was asked by CNN about his reinvention of himself as a religious leader, he said, “Why is this a concern?” But a former admirer of Chalabi’s was alarmed by his turn toward Shiite nationalism, and said that his actions risked unleashing sectarian political strife that could pitch the country into civil war.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?040607fa_fact1 (9486 words)

	Ahmed Chalabi's failed coup - Salon
		Chalabi aides blame the CIA and Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority.
		Almost certainly because it realized that Chalabi, maddened by the realization that he was being excluded from the post-June 30 hand-over arrangements, was putting together a sectarian Shiite faction to destabilize and destroy the new Iraqi government.
		Chalabi himself has been denouncing the U.S. occupation since last fall, partly in an effort to win some credibility with the Iraqi masses.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2004/05/20/chalabi/index.html (662 words)

	CNN.com - Chalabi suspected of giving U.S. secrets to Iran - May 21, 2004
		Chalabi has claimed the raid was politically motivated, but coalition officials have distanced themselves from their one-time ally, saying it was part of a suspected fraud investigation, authorized by an Iraqi judge and led by the Iraqis.
		Chalabi said the Coalition Provisional Authority is unhappy with his demands for Iraq's provisional government to be given full control of the Iraqi army after the June 30 handover and for control of the investigation of fraud in the U.N. oil-for-food program.
		Chalabi was convicted in absentia for bank fraud by a Jordanian military court in 1982 -- charges he insists were politically motivated.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/05/21/iraq.chalabi (760 words)

	Ahmed Chalabi – Petroleum’s Point Man
		Much of the debate about Ahmed Chalabi, regardless of whose ‘man’ the political pundits think he is, whether the CIA’s or the DIA’s or the Israelis or the ‘neo-cons’, is irrelevant, Chalabi is first and foremost a creature of Big Oil.
		Chalabi has, over the past years, made sure that when it came to who was going to deliver it, he would be the man. So too, and for the same reasons, he has cultivated a close relationship with Zionist Israel, who also covet access to all that oil, long denied them by Iraq.
		If US backing for Chalabi reveals anything it is the cynical manipulation by US imperialism of individuals such as Chalabi, who although having his own agenda, largely I suspect personal aggrandizement and an over-inflated sense of his own importance in the scheme of things, is merely a pawn in a much larger game.
	www.williambowles.info /ini/2006/0106/ini-0382.html (2002 words)

	Chalabi's Long, Costly Charade
		The CIA had stopped using Chalabi as a source in the mid-1990s after his political organization of exiles was accused of deception and incompetence.
		Chalabi is now suspected of having "gamed" the intelligence agencies of eight nations using phony or tricked-up sources and documents, according to intelligence sources cited in the Los Angeles Times.
		Chalabi and his family and cronies have been granted control over Iraq's banking system and the crucial de-Baathification process, as well as the upcoming trial of Saddam Hussein.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20040607/scheer0525 (974 words)

	Think Progress » Sleeping With the Enemy: Chalabi’s Sordid History
		Chalabi is accused of telling the Iranian government that the U.S. had broken the code it used for secret communications.
		CHALABI CONVICTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT: Critics have questioned the credibility of Ahmad Chalabi because in 1992 he was convicted by a Jordanian court of embezzling funds from a bank where he was employed.
		Chalabi’s handler Francis Brooke is/ or was employed by BKSH - Charlie Blacks (well-connected to both Poppy and son) firm - listed as one of the 10 most profitable Iraq contractors.
	thinkprogress.org /2005/11/08/chalabis-sordid-history (5706 words)

	Terrorism & Security \| csmonitor.com
		Chalabi has had a long and sometimes rocky relationship with the US and its intelligence agencies.
		Chalabi allegedly told the Iranians he learned about the code intercepts from an American who was "drunk" when he told him.
		There have been numerous reports recently about the role that Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress Party played in the lead up to the war in Iraq, and questions have arisen about the reliabilty and value of the information the group fed to its supporters in the Pentagon and the White House.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0603/dailyUpdate.html (729 words)

	The Return of Chalabi- by Justin Raimondo
		Chalabi's agenda was to convince the United States that Iraq under Saddam was "a leaking warehouse of gas, and all we had to do was light a match." And the Democrats were eager to start the conflagration, including longtime Chalabi booster
		Aras Habib Karim, Chalabi's intelligence chief and known to be on the Iranian payroll for years.
		As it turned out, the INS and CIA were right as one of the detainees, Aras Habib Karim, became Chalabi's Chief of Intelligence and was a sieve of sensitive and classified American information to Iran, now under investigation by the FBI.
	antiwar.com /justin/?articleid=7961 (2258 words)

	Frank Gaffney on Ahmed Chalabi & Iraqi Reconstruction on National Review Online
		The fact that the individual in question — the Iraqi National Congress's Ahmed Chalabi — has arguably done more than any other Iraqi to effect his country's liberation and, subsequently, to support the consolidation of democracy there makes this case of "politician abuse" positively bizarre.
		Chalabi spoke for countless Iraqis — at home and, like him, in exile — who knew that such an approach was neither in the best interests of their country nor the rest of the world.
		Ahmed Chalabi has been a prominent critic of such patently self-defeating measures.
	www.nationalreview.com /gaffney/gaffney200405211326.asp (1016 words)

	A Controversial Iraqi Comes Home, Exiled Head Of Iraqi Political Opposition Is Back - CBS News
		Chalabi's supporters say Iraq needs an exile like him precisely because he understands how democracy works.
		Chalabi also predicted there would be a popular uprising, when the American Army came in.
		Chalabi certainly didn’t tell Americans that the Ba’ath party would have this kind of power, that there would be the Fedayeen to fight.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/04/06/60minutes/printable548012.shtml (1365 words)

	Democracy Now! \| The Truth About Ahmed Chalabi: Why the US Turned Against Their Former Golden Boy--He Was Preparing a ...
		The Truth About Ahmed Chalabi: Why the US Turned Against Their Former Golden Boy--He Was Preparing a Coup.
		Chalabi, or certainly at least his spokesmen, have been actually taking a sectarian line on threatening civil war against the Sunnis at various times after the bombings.
		I wouldn't say it's certain, but now it's possible that Chalabi can portray himself as the victims of the Americans and they raided his house and so on and so forth, that you will see more sort of sectarian rhetoric coming from him, which may resonate in Iraq.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/05/21/1450237 (1784 words)

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