CHALABI THREATENS TO LIFT LID ON SADDAM LINKS

The Guardian (UK) ^ | May 7, 2003 | Owen Bowcott

[Marianne]

Ahmad Chalabi, the exiled financier promoted by the Pentagon as a leader of postwar Iraq, claims to have obtained 25 tonnes of intelligence documents detailing Saddam Hussein's relationship with foreign governments and Arab leaders.

The files, seized by his Iraqi National Congress supporters from Ba'ath party offices and secret police stations, may fuel a fresh round of recriminations and score-settling as politicians meeting in Baghdad struggle to agree the terms of an interim administration.

In interviews with Abu Dhabi television and Newsweek magazine, Mr Chalabi has already threatened to use the papers to damage the Jordanian royal family and the satellite television service al-Jazeera - organisations with which he has had long-running disputes.

Some of the documents may be published, the Iraqi National Congress (INC) offices in London said yesterday but other Iraqi political groups, and the Foreign Office, called for the files to be returned to the authorities.

The papers were collected from abandoned buildings used by Saddam's Special Security Organisation and the mukhabarat intelligence service, from Ba'ath party offices, and from the Iraqi army.

"The SSO was the organisation closest to the regime," said a spokesman for the INC in London. "Its members were those running the country and their bodyguards. Some of the documents will be used in the interests of Iraq; some kept for the future government.

"In the case of al-Jazeera, for example, it has been bombarding Arabs and Iraqis with false news for so long. Now we can put things right. Likewise the Jordanian [royal family] has been leading the campaign against Iraqi opposition politicians. But I don't think there's a plan to go after any other person or country."

Mr Chalabi has repeatedly been accused of being a creature of the US government and was blamed for the collapse of the Petra bank, which he headed in Jordan in the 1980s. The Amman authorities convicted him of fraud and theft.

Speaking on Abu Dhabi television, Mr Chalabi read from documents which he claimed showed a number of reporters for the Qatar-based al-Jazeera were working for Iraqi intelligence. "We will not allow this channel to continue its destructive work, which might lead to civil war in Iraq, through their lies and the spreading of rumours," Mr Chalabi said.

In the latest issue of Newsweek Mr Chalabi targeted the Jordanians, declaring: "Some of the files are very damning." King Abdullah, who has ruled Jordan since 1999, "is worried about his relationship with Saddam. He's worried about what might come out".

The Jordanian government has not yet replied to the threats or to the suggestion that the royal family privately profited from its dealings with Saddam. Al-Jazeera said it had not seen the details and could not therefore comment on the allegations.

A spokesman for the Foreign Office observed: "There are regrettably still incidents of theft and looting. Those in possession of documents/property should return them to the appropriate authorities."

Dilshad Miran, the London head of the Kurdistan Democratic party, one of the organisations involved in negotiations to form the interim administration, said: "It's not for different political parties to keep these documents. They are the property of the new government."

[Marianne]

FYI

[dinok]

I hope he does it.

[MizSterious]

Make it so!

[JOE6PAK]

The NEXT dance craze...

..EVERYBODY...

DO THE CHULABI!!

[genefromjersey]

Don't threaten : ( Sorry Nike ! )

JUST DO IT !!!

[tet68]

Obviously documents such as these should be turned over immediatly to the UN.


/sarcasm

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

He should reveal the connections!

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ping!

[BrooklynGOP]

Better double his security!

[aristeides]

The volumes of evidence published by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg after WWII are still valuable historical sources. Chalabi might consider following their example.

[Gritty]

I wonder how many of these documents have "WJCLINTON" stamped on them?

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #10

The importance of these documents cannot be overemphasized. It will give Chalabi and U.S. a great power to be wielded against their enemies. In all likelihood, they have many smoking guns, which would make a lot of people scared to death. A tremendous leverage to have.

[danmar]

. A tremendous leverage to have.

Rest assured my friend that we are on top of it, just as we speak about it.
This is, methinks allready a trial baloon to see how it fares with the involved parties, and put everyone on notice of things to come if requests are not met to our full satisfaction.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this.

We will see massive regime changes in goverments, political parties and the pro islamofacist media personnel.

Jordan was providing munitions and weapons right up to our bombing. Ollie North and another embedden reporter kept showing new ammo from Jordan when it was captured.

We will see massive changes in American politicians, phoney non profits across the board and with mediots in America who were bought out with Iraqi Blood Money.

[Grampa Dave]

Amen, Otto, we are on top of it, reading it, sorting and letting some of come to the surface like in this situation and the reporter with the London Telegraph.

When, the Telegraph "finds" Galloway data and releases it, we are not the evil Americans doing it.

When Ahmad Chalabi does it and takes down or weakens his enemies, the Jordan royal family, it ain't us doing it.

Keep you eyes out for American Rat Politicians suddenly retiring to spend time with their families whom they hate. If they don't "retire" a box of evidence will show up with another so called neutral third party.

I think the mediots on the take will just read about it in a competitor's newspaper. They will scream and shout like Galloway has. Then, their newspaper or board will either fire them or put them on permanent suspension.

This is the highest intrique and poker stakes of the entire Iraqi situation in 3 decades. So stay tuned for a lot fun and games.

[John Lenin]

Want to bet the UN lifts the sanctions on Iraq without a whimper of protest ?

[Oschisms]

The Chulabi dance step:

Move side to side, making a motion as if you were handing papers out to reporters.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Keep you eyes out for American Rat Politicians suddenly retiring to spend time with their families whom they hate. If they don't "retire" a box of evidence will show up with another so called neutral third party.

Chalabi has his info, the Telegraph has theirs and we have How many semi-trailer loads?

OOOOooooohhhhhhh, the knees be a shakin' at the DNC.

[Grampa Dave]

I imagine knees are shaking at DNC, the headquarters of every left wing fish wrap in the world, and of course ABCNNBCBS.

[george wythe]

Chalabi was convicted in Jordan by a kangaroo court after Chalabi spoke out against late King Hussein's involvement with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. (Everyone is called Hussein in that part of the world :-)

Chalabi is just telling the new king of Jordan to stop his intense lobbying against Chalabi. If King Abdullah calls it a truce, Chalabi will keep it quiet.

After all, Iraq has to have good relations with its neighbors, even if those neighbors where former friends of the deposed regime. Only the intelligence agencies will get hold of these embarrassing documents.