http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/chalabi/ en-us Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:47:12 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049683/posts Two sources, one in Iraq, the other in Washington, told me that Ahmed Chalabi was key in Maliki's decision to rather ostentatiously endorse Barack Obama's Iraq withdrawal time-line. Chalabi, of course, has been in and out -- mostly out -- of favor with the Bush Administration, but it's not merely revenge that motivated his advice to Maliki. "Chalabi knows American politics better than nearly every other Iraqi politician, and he knows it's time to line up with the candidate who has the better-than-even shot of becoming President," one source told me. theatlantic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049683/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:47:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014427/posts FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU — Two years ago, al-Qaeda destroyed the Chalabi village in the Sayafiyah region. A Shia tribe in a predominately Sunni area, the Chalabis fled to Mahmudiyah, Baghdad and other surrounding areas. About four months ago, Coalition forces entered the area and set up Sons of Iraq security and Iraqi Army checkpoints. Soon after, Soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), discovered residents had returned to the area. “These families had heard from word of mouth that the area was now secure so now they are... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014427/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 15:57:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990984/posts The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi By Aram Roston Nation Books $27.50, 369 pages What do the arch hawks of the Bush administration, such as Paul Wolfowitz, have in common with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard? Answer: they both fêted Ahmad Chalabi, the former Iraqi banker who put “regime change” in Baghdad at the top of the US policy agenda. In this biography, American investigative reporter Aram Roston says Chalabi and his organisations took millions from the US government, even as he continued to talk to Iranian intelligence services. While it uncovers... Financial Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990984/posts#comment Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:15:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964584/posts     Shadow Warriors   By David ForsmarkFrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, February 04, 2008 Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of SurrenderBy Kenneth TimmermanCrown Forum, $25.95, 404 pp. At long last, the CIA and the State Department have targeted a government they have identified as an aggressive threat to world peace and largely countered its foreign policy through psy-ops, propaganda, selective leaks of intelligence and covert operations.And who was the target of this covert campaign? Are these operations aimed at the Islamofascists in Iran? How about Vladimir Putin and his increasingly fascist government in Russia?... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964584/posts#comment Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:11:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956150/posts Keith Weissman and Steven Rosen Are PhDs and Middle East Experts Who Did Some Lobbying. They Thought They Were Doing What Washington Insiders Always Do. Thomas O’Donnell didn’t reveal his job when he phoned Keith Weissman in 2004 and got the policy analyst’s wife. He says he didn’t want to scare her. When Weissman returned the call and found out O’Donnell was an FBI agent, his first reaction was to attempt a joke: “What did I do?” “I’m sure you didn’t do anything,” O’Donnell told him. He wanted to meet that day, for five or ten minutes, and get Weissman’s... Washingtonian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956150/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:46:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938383/posts   Shadow Warriors   By Jamie GlazovFrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Kenneth R. Timmerman, the New York Times bestselling author of Countdown to Crisis, The French Betrayal of America, Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America, and Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq. In 2006 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his groundbreaking reporting on Iran ’s nuclear weapons program. He is the author of the new book, Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender. FP: Kenneth Timmerman, welcome to Frontpage... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938383/posts#comment Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:12:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918648/posts A British private security firm hired to protect oil installations of post-invasion Iraq is being sued for causing the death of an American soldier. The case against the Erinys security firm, which reportedly has close ties to the former Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi, is believed to be the first brought against a private security contractor operating in Iraq by a member of the US military. It comes at a time of rising unease about the actions of private security firms in Iraq after 17 Iraqi civilians were shot dead in Baghdad by Blackwater guards travelling with a convoy of US... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918648/posts#comment Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:39:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789718/posts In his latest remarkable political reincarnation, onetime U.S. favorite Ahmed Chalabi has secured a position inside the Iraqi government that could help determine whether the Bush administration's new push to secure Baghdad succeeds. In a new post created earlier this year, Mr. Chalabi will serve as an intermediary between Baghdad residents and the Iraqi and U.S. security forces mounting an aggressive counterinsurgency campaign across the city. The position is meant to help Iraqis arrange reimbursement for damage to their cars and homes caused by the security sweeps in the hope of maintaining public support for the strategy. Mr. Chalabi's writ... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789718/posts#comment Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:17:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1732701/posts 1. London, August 2006 Many miles away in a more dangerous place the dream is ending badly. The bodies pile up. Good people stream to the borders. Leaders pile money onto planes. The center is giving way. The apartment on South Street in London is an antidote to Baghdad in nearly every respect. Where the Iraqi capital rings with chaos and violence, the sidewalks of Mayfair are quiet enough to hear your own voice above the cars. Baghdad is treeless and tan; the South Street apartment opens onto a private park filled with the lushness of an English garden. Just... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1732701/posts#comment Sun, 5 Nov 2006 15:17:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731733/posts BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte met Friday with Iraq's prime minister in the second visit this week by a top U.S. official. The unannounced meeting comes amid spiraling violence that included seven American deaths and the discovery of 56 bodies in the Iraqi capital bearing signs of torture. The bodies found scattered around Baghdad were of Iraqi men between 20 and 45 years old, and all were apparent victims of sectarian death squads, police said Friday.All wore civilian clothes and had been bound at the wrists and ankles, police Lt. Mohammed Khayon said. He said the... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731733/posts#comment Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:54:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1028202/posts The sordid tale now making the rounds in the "mainstream" press of a rogue Pentagon intelligence operation has all the elements of an urban legend: heavy breathing, a secret basement office "down by the ramp" and government officials who form a hidden alliance based on long-ago ties to an obscure but influential university guru. Only the work of a few good men with the courage to face up to this "cabal" - and a few crusader-journalists to help them - can make the demons scatter and scare the dark ones into the light. Or so the story goes on those... Insight Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1028202/posts#comment Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:19:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1599056/posts The Talk Shows Sunday, March 19th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Vice President Dick Cheney. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Jack Reed, D-R.I.; Olympic speed skater Joey Cheek. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Joseph Biden, D-Del.; Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi; Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Various big media television networks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1599056/posts#comment Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:23:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549462/posts Iraq's deputy prime minister Ahmed Chalabi was put in charge of the oil ministry Friday after the minister, Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, was relieved of his duties, an official said. "The government has relieved Mr Bahr al-Ulum of duties for 30 days and put in charge Mr Chalabi who heads the energy council," the official said on condition of anonymity. "The decision was taken because of Mr Bahr al-Ulum's objections to the early introduction of higher petrol prices," the official said. The Iraqi government earlier this month announced a tripling of petrol prices in a bid to reduce subsidies, a... Agence France Presse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549462/posts#comment Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:56:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538628/posts The priests have long since departed, but the elite Jesuit high school called Baghdad College still looms over the swirling world of Iraqi politics. The three Iraqi political leaders considered most likely to end up as prime minister after nationwide elections this week - Ayad Allawi, Ahmad Chalabi and Adelabdul Mahdi - were schoolmates at the all-boys English-language school in the late 1950's, fortunate members of the Baghdad elite that governed Iraq until successive waves of revolution and terror swept it away. The boys of Baghdad College, now men in their 60's back from exile, are ready to assume their... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538628/posts#comment Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:27:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524552/posts Lance Dickie / Seattle Times editorial columnist When red and blue turn purple President Bush is having an especially tough week with the Iraq war when he gets hung out to dry by Ahmad Chalabi and the U.S. Senate on the same day. Chalabi is the convicted embezzler behind suspect intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, which the White House found irresistible before the war. He is now deputy prime minister of Iraq. His illuminating PBS appearance on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer came amid a grand tour of Capitol Hill and the White House. Interviewer Ray... Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524552/posts#comment Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:30:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1523574/posts But in trying to set the record straight, [Bush] asserted: "When I made the decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power, Congress approved it with strong bipartisan support." The October 2002 joint resolution authorized the use of force in Iraq, but it did not directly mention the removal of Hussein from power. Slate.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1523574/posts#comment Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:29:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522907/posts Ahmed Al Chalabi, who has taken several steps that were not well estimated in the past, is seeking to re-produce himself in front of the Americans, whom some observers believe that they would keep a distance between them and the man, whose image has shaken a lot due to the policies that he adopted in the past. In the beginning, Al Chalabi's visit to Washington has been surrounded with many questions. It came during a very sensitive period, due to the intensive Iranian intervention in Iraqi affairs and the American reaction towards it. It has been preceded with a history... www.almendhar.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522907/posts#comment Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:15:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522075/posts Are you sure you want to keep saying we were fooled by Ahmad Chalabi and the INC? By Christopher Hitchens Posted Monday, Nov. 14, 2005, at 11:46 AM ET The power to cloud congessmen's minds? Click image to expand. The power to cloud congessmen's minds? What do you have to believe in order to keep alive your conviction that the Bush administration conspired to launch a lie-based war? As with (I admit) the pro-war case, the ground of argument has a tendency to shift. I saw two examples in Washington last week. An exceptionally moth-eaten and shabby picket line outside... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522075/posts#comment Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:29:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1519268/posts THE FIGHT FOR IRAQ Democrats Ask Whether Chalabi, In U.S., Will Face FBI Questions By SCOT J. PALTROW Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 10, 2005; Page B3 Three Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats demanded that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales answer questions both about Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi's current visit to top Bush administration officials and about why a criminal investigation into his possible role in leaking U.S. secrets to Iran appears to have languished. Mr. Chalabi, now a deputy prime minister in Iraq with authority over its oil resources, arrived in Washington Tuesday on his first visit to... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1519268/posts#comment Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:37:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1519079/posts WASHINGTON - Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi offered Wednesday to be questioned by the Senate on his role in prewar Iraq but refused to apologize for fueling allegations that Saddam Hussein had hidden caches of weapons of mass destruction. Accorded a warm reception by the Bush administration, Chalabi lined up Vice President Dick Cheney and five Cabinet officers, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, for meetings this week and next. Chalabi, whose reputation in Washington has soared, fallen and now revived, was welcomed by administration officials whom he briefed on Iraq's reconstruction... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1519079/posts#comment Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:08:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518337/posts <p>Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq's deputy prime minister and head of the Iraqi National Congress, arrives today on a visit to Washington and New York, his first trip to the United States in nearly two years. The official American invitation reflects a recognition that Chalabi is among Iraq's most effective political figures and a repudiation of an earlier, perverse U.S. effort to "marginalize," if not destroy, him.</p> New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518337/posts#comment Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518249/posts WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The Iraqi politician most associated with the discredited prewar intelligence that has the Bush presidency in turmoil visits Washington this week as he maneuvers for advantage before Iraq's Dec. 15 elections. Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq's deputy prime minister, is a former U.S. golden boy who for years was on the Pentagon payroll. He fell from favor after the United States ousted Saddam Hussein but has proven a remarkable political survivor and is considered a likely candidate for prime minister. Chalabi's visit will almost certainly provoke more debate over President George W. Bush's conduct of the war,... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518249/posts#comment Tue, 8 Nov 2005 21:17:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509818/posts John McCain, a Neocon's Neocon, will be dead for '08 if Plamegate detonates in the way the Left hopes. Plamegate is a twofer-- it's designed to politically castrate/impeach Bush and to thin the GOP field for Hillary in '08. McCain's closeness with Chalabi-- there is footage-- will be the focus of the Clinton War Room. McCain is no winner in '08. The GOP base will have to be passionate for whoever the candidate is-- despite McCain's fiscal thrift, he can never make the base love or trust him. His Chalabi connection kills him with independents and mods assuming Iraq continues... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509818/posts#comment Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:51:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507879/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi will be visiting the US capital in November at the invitation of Treasury Secretary John Snow. The visit is likely to mark a political rehabilitation in the United States of the controversial former Iraqi exile leader, whose Baghdad headquarters were raided in 2004 and who was accused of passing on secret information to Iran. The Time magazine report says Chalabi will have potentially more significant meetings with national security adviser Stephen Hadley and perhaps Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Both now believe Chalabi is a plausible and acceptable candidate to be... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507879/posts#comment Sun, 23 Oct 2005 23:43:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127226/posts WASHINGTON: Soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, a two-man intelligence team set up shop at the Pentagon, searching for evidence of links between terrorist groups and host countries. The men, Michael Maloof and David Wurmser, culled classified material, much of it uncorroborated data from the CIA. "We discovered tons of raw intelligence," said Maloof. "We were stunned that we couldn't find any mention of it in the CIA's finished reports." They recorded and annotated their evidence on butcher paper hung like a mural around their small office. By the end of 2001, they had constructed a startling new picture of... International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127226/posts#comment Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:31:09 GMT