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	[ The New Iraq ]
		The party was critical of the Iraqi National Congress in that year for its apparent disregard for the Assyrian role in the opposition.
		The KDP joined the Iraqi National Congress and was an active member of the Iraqi opposition that supported the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
		The groups are the National Independence Party, led by Malik Duhan al-Hasan; the Arab National Democratic Movement, headed by Muhammad Husayn Ra'uf; and the Iraqi National Coalition, headed by Tawfiq al-Yasiri.
	www.rferl.org /specials/IraqCrisis/specials-politicalgroups2.asp (6185 words)

	Statement from the Iraqi National Congress
		Although the Iraqi National Congress was not involved in today’s action in Berlin, we are prepared to assist in finding a peaceful resolution to the situation.
		LONDON (20 August 2002): Following is a statement from the Iraqi National Congress:
		All Iraqis are united in their desire to remove Saddam’s regime and establish democracy and the rule of law.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /news/2002/haug/20_statement.html (179 words)

	Iraqi political groupings and individuals
		Iraqi National Alliance (al-Tahaluf al-Watani al-Iraqi): a reformist opposition grouping in Iraq that was tolerated under the Ba‘th regime, coming to prominence in Nov02, and with Ba‘thist and Nasirist participants.
		Iraqi National Accord (INA, al-Wifaq): created in December 1990, on the initiative of Saudi Prince Turki ibn Faysal, with the support of the CIA, and Jordanian and British agencies.
		Was supported by the US as an alternative to the INC from the early 1990s; reemergence of interest in the DCT in Feb03, when Zalmay Khalilzad, the White House envoy, attempted to enlist Pachachi for a future Iraqi government, to sound him out possibly for a leadership role.
	middleeastreference.org.uk /iraqiopposition.html (11453 words)

	National Review: What's Right - US relations with Iraqi National Congress
		What's Right - US relations with Iraqi National Congress
		National Review: What's Right - US relations with Iraqi National Congress
		Since 9/11, the State Department has shunned the INC in favor of its own creation, the Iraqi National Accord, a collection of former generals and other associates of Saddam.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_4_55/ai_97937305 (1039 words)

	The CIA’s Secret War in Iraq
		He joined the Iraqi National Congress in May 1992, but was recruited a month later to work secretly for the CIA within the Accord.
		The Iraqi National Congress is partly a creation of the CIA, which provided it with its name and more than $12 million in covert funding between 1992 and 1996.
		It first supported the Iraqi National Congress, a popular political opposition group led by Ahmed Chalabi.
	www.ecn.org /golfo/eng/articles/doc33eng.html (2339 words)

	What Role for the Iraqi National Congress In Iraq? - Council on Foreign Relations
		The Iraqi National Congress put forth a proposal in Congress in 1998 that subsequently was legislated, made into law.
		Furthermore, the INC was in Iraqi Kurdistan in the North and conducted a campaign of military action against Saddam.
		We all agreed on the principles of the INC for democracy, for elections, to have a parliament, and I don't think that the Iraqi Shiites would have some sort of affect on the region or some sort to be with Iran because they are Shiites.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=4330 (7201 words)

	"Iraqi National Congress Convenes Assembly in New York" (October 1999)
		The long-awaited general assembly of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) is scheduled to convene in New York on October 29 to elect a new leadership and discuss plans for toppling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
		Iraqi National Congress Convenes Assembly in New York
		"Iraqi National Congress Convenes Assembly in New York" (October 1999)
	www.meib.org /articles/9910_me5.htm (502 words)

	"The United States and the Iraqi National Congress" (April 2001)
		In June 1992, the first meeting of the Iraqi National Congress was held in Vienna.
		He and other Iraqi officers would have been able to assume control of their areas and they were extremely disappointed when the INC operations stooped.
		In 1990 and 1991 their focus was on changing the Iraqi regime through a coup and they maintained that US dealings with Iraq's Shi'ite and Kurdish opposition leaders were incompatible with that outcome.
	www.meib.org /articles/0104_ir1.htm (4491 words)

	Funding for the Iraqi National Congress (Taken Question)
		Answer: We are working with the Iraqi National Congress at this time regarding the transition of their operations from London to Iraq.
		The Iraqi National Congress continues to play a productive and useful role in our efforts to topple Saddam’s regime, and we will continue to work closely with them to meet those objectives.
		Funding for the Iraqi National Congress (Taken Question)
	www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2003/19546.htm (256 words)

	Dead Men Left: Iraqi National Foundation Congress statement on elections.
		I received this preliminary (and slightly condensed) translation of the Iraqi National Foundation Congress' (INFC) statement on the proposed January elections.
		The statement on election on the previous sheet is dated 27th November 2004, and hand-signed by Dr. Wamidh Nadhmi, Official Spokesmen, and Shaikh Jawad Khalisi, General Secretary of the Iraqi National Foundation Congress.
		Iraqi National Foundation Congress statement on elections- Nov 04
	deadmenleft.blogspot.com /2004/11/iraqi-national-foundation-congress.html (1473 words)

	U.S. Ends Payments To Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress
		Criticism of the INC is focused on its leader, Ahmad Chalabi, a wealthy Iraqi exile who had not lived in his native land for nearly 50 years.
		And many Iraqis are resisting the U.S.-led occupation, despite assurances -- again reportedly from the INC -- that coalition forces would be welcomed by Iraqis after Saddam's fall.
		The United States, she says, cannot possibly continue to support the INC after an Iraqi government is sworn in.
	www.payvand.com /news/04/may/1132.html (1008 words)

	The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition
		A banker who left Iraq in 1958 and who heads the Iraq National Congress exile opposition group, Mr.
		He also is upset that coalition officials, eager to stop rampant looting and general mayhem spreading across Iraq, are planning to resurrect the old Iraqi police force and some other parts of the previous bureaucracy.
		The sight of Kalashnikov-bearing Iraqis, however, is unnerving for some U.S. forces -- most of whom are utterly unaware of the FIF's existence.
	www.wsjclassroomedition.com /wsjtoday/war/03apr14_story2.html (1272 words)

	Online NewsHour: After Saddam? -- December 16, 2002
		JUDITH MILLER: Ahmad Chalabi is the head of the Iraqi national congress.
		I think they have made an error in their relationship with the Iraqi opposition, and I think they have made an error in their estimate of what Iraq is like, and how the Iraqi people respond to various initiatives to remove Saddam.
		Iraqi opposition turns to the west, it turns to the United States, unheard of before.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec02/after_saddam_12-16.html (1908 words)

	Iraqi National Congress - SourceWatch
		The Iraqi National Congress (INC) was created at the behest of the U.S. government for the purpose of fomenting the overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
		According to ABC, Rendon came up with the name for the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition coalition of 19 Iraqi and Kurdish organizations whose main tasks were to "gather information, distribute propaganda and recruit dissidents." ABC also reported that the INC received $12 million of covert CIA funding between 1992 and 1996.
		"The Iraqi National Congress, and its most famous spokesperson Ahmad Chalabi, are entirely the creation of a media strategy company (Rendon Group) doing the bidding of the United States government." [2] (http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/092104A.shtml)
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Iraqi_National_Congress (2679 words)

	Ahmed Chalabi / Iraqi National Congress
		The leader of the opposition Iraqi National Congress (INC) is heavily protected by American troops who have accompanied him since he arrived on an American military flight to the southern town of Nasiriyah.
		As leader of one of the foremost opposition movements, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), the former businessman has been tipped by some analysts as a possible successor to Saddam Hussein.
		Many expect the leader of the Iraqi National Congress to take a senior role in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq even though he has said he is not seeking office.
	www.freedomfiles.org /war/ds2/ahmedchalibi.htm (707 words)

	Iraq INC? - Don't expect postwar miracles from the Iraqi National Congress. By Gideon Rose
		Iraq INC? - Don't expect postwar miracles from the Iraqi National Congress.
		What they fail to appreciate are the magical powers attributed by administration hawks to the Iraqi opposition, and in particular to one opposition group known as the Iraqi National Congress.
		Don't expect postwar miracles from the Iraqi National Congress.
	slate.msn.com /id/2081321 (961 words)

	More Missing Intelligence
		According to current and former US intelligence analysts and government officials, the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans funneled information, unchallenged, from Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (INC) to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, who in turn passed it on to the White House, suggesting that Iraqis would welcome the American invaders.
		So-called National Intelligence Estimates are produced by a unit that reports immediately to Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet.) "Back in the old days, there would have been an estimate," says Raymond McGovern, the twenty-seven-year CIA warrior who formed Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity this past January.
		As the Pentagon scours Iraq for weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi links to Al Qaeda, it's increasingly obvious that the Bush Administration either distorted or deliberately exaggerated the intelligence used to justify the war against Iraq.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20030707/dreyfuss (1335 words)

	Interview with 'Iraqi National Congress' leader--Ummah.comGeneral
		A decade ago, after the Gulf war, Mr Chalabi founded the Iraqi National Congress (INC) to unite the fractious opposition; he has led it ever since.
		Leading the Iraqi opposition has not been easy.
		"He is under pressure from Saddam to do something about Hassan's decision to show solidarity with the Iraqi people by visiting the conference we held in London on July 12." Hassan's appearance at this meeting was laden with symbolism, for Hassan would be a prime candidate for any restoration of the monarchy in Iraq.
	www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=6674 (1071 words)

	The Observer Special reports Iraqi opposition slams plan for military governor
		In an interview with The Observer, Kanan Makiya, an adviser to Iraq's main opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress, said America now appeared to have dumped its commitment to bring Western-style democracy to Iraq.
		Yesterday the chairman of the Iraqi National Congress, Ahmad Chalabi, who many people had expected to become Iraq's new president, also derided Washington's proposals.
		The Iraqi opposition is also deeply suspicious of an agreement between Washington and Turkey that will see thousands of Turkish troops enter northern Iraq, ostensibly for humanitarian purposes.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /worldview/story/0,11581,896779,00.html (820 words)

	Iraqi National Congress Reports
		These reports were on the website of the Iraqi National Congress in March 1998.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/1998/980300-inc.htm (34 words)

	Iraq - Iraqi National Congress (INC)
		Iraq- Iraqi National Congress (INC) - DangerFinder
		Ahmed Chalabi, former Jordanian-based Shiite Iraqi and ex-banker, was picked to run the INC. Now wanted in Jordan on fraud charges, he sensibly lives in London (See "Kurdistan.") The INC is a bit of a defunct organization to be honest.
		The CIA bankrolled the INC in the SAS hotel in Vienna, Austria, in 1992.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/iraq/player4.htm (154 words)

	Ambassador Pickering Letter to the Iraqi National Congress, 11/1
		We see no alternative to the renewed and reunified Iraqi National Congress.
		Several of you have pledged to demonstrate this commitment by stepping forward to lead the Iraqi opposition as both a national and an international movement, beginning with the joint conference of all Iraqi opposition parties in a new Iraqi National Assembly in New York in a few days.
		We, and most of all the Iraqi people, need such a partner with which to cooperate -- both to help liberate Iraq from its current nightmare, and to help rebuild it when Iraqis reclaim their freedom and national dignity.
	www.usembassy.it /file9911/alia/99110118.htm (715 words)

	John Quiggin: The Iraqi National Congress Conference - a mixed bag
		With most of the ruling administration being former members of the Iraqi National Congress or Iraqi National Accord (a splinter group) it is fair to call this lil get together the:
		The Iraqi National Congress Conference - a mixed bag
		The meeting of the Iraqi National Conference has wound up in Baghdad, leaving, from the limited reports available, a very mixed record.
	www.johnquiggin.com /archives/001869.html (958 words)

	Members of the Iraqi cabinet
		Was reportedly installed on the urging of the Iraqi National Congress.
		President of the Iraqi Bar Association from 2003; head of a task force on compensation for victims of the former regime.
		Former senior adviser of the Iraqi Reconstruction and Development Council to the Ministry of Planning, supervising provincial affairs; and as an ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
	middleeastreference.org.uk /iraqministers.html (3855 words)

	US approves re-financing the Iraqi National Congress
		Most of the sums to the Iraqi opposition were suspended by the US over differences between the Iraqi National Congress and the US state department over calculations on sums of money the Iraqi organization has received in the past.
		An American official said that the Iraqi opposition National Congress will receive USD 800,000 per month for the three coming months in compensation of the reduced payment approved earlier, estimated at USD 500,000 per month, the Iraqi opposition received in January.
		The US government has approved the financing of the opposition Iraqi National Congress which seeks to topple the Iraqi President.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/020201/2002020113.html (271 words)

	Forums - Burson-Marsteller Buffs Iraqi National Congress Image
		"Burson-Marsteller is working to buff the image of the Iraqi National Congress," O'Dwyer's PR Daily reports.
		BKSH and Associates, Burson-Marsteller's lobbying wing is working for the Iraqi National Congress Support Foundation.
		Forums - Burson-Marsteller Buffs Iraqi National Congress Image
	www.prwatch.org /forum/printthread.php?t=2270 (111 words)

	Iraqi national congress concludes deliberations
		The central council of the opposition Iraqi national congress on Tuesday in London concluded its deliberations which lasted for three days following discussions and disputes that lasted until drafting out final decisions.
		It was also decided by the end of the conference to build two TV stations for the congress one is in London and another one in north Iraq and to issue a regular paper and a magazine in the name of the congress.
		The meeting was attended by the US coordinator for the Iraqi opposition who delivered a speech in which he stressed that the American government is serious in getting rid off from the regime of Saddam Hussein and in backing the Iraqi opposition and commitment to its previous decisions.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/000712/2000071203.html (277 words)

	TalkLeft: Media Fed False Information by Iraqi National Congress
		Because they got played by the Iraqi National Congress.
		A June 26, 2002, letter from the Iraqi National Congress to the Senate Appropriations Committee listed 108 articles based on information provided by the Iraqi National Congress's Information Collection Program, a U.S. -funded effort to collect intelligence in Iraq.
		Feeding the information to the news media, as well as to selected administration officials and members of Congress, helped foster an impression that there were multiple sources of intelligence on Iraq's illicit weapons programs and links to bin Laden.
	talkleft.com /new_archives/005681.html (1264 words)

	Zionists in collusion with Iraqi National Congress--Ummah.comGeneral
		have sponsored discussions with members of the Iraqi National Congress, a
		prominent Iraqi opposition group that is financially supported by the U.S. government.
		Affairs Committee and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs,
	www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=9560 (219 words)

	Elections in Iraq
		Prime minister: Iyad Allawi (2004) Iraqi National Accord
		The Kurdish National Assembly has 115 members, elected by proportional representation, 100 seats reserved for Kurds, 5 for Assyrians and 10 for Turkmens.
		The new Majlis Watani (National Assembly) wil have 275 elected members, elected by proportional representation.
	www.electionworld.org /iraq.htm (334 words)

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