Chalabi told US intelligence last week that UNcompound would be attacked

[ElsewheresDaughter]

...Chalabi did this with Bremer blessing...because he doesn't want UN there either...now they are saying it wasn't C4 explosives but "Iraq pre-war weapons/bombs"....what the hell are Iraq pre-war weapons/bombs ..scares me to death how stupid bush thinks we are....i guess we must be....just heard it on CNN :shrug:

[NYC]

1. Sounds like a retroactive prediction.

I can make those, too.

[karlschneider]

3. I predict something bad on 9/11/2001. Oh.

They are trying to spin this as "the explosives resemble those Saddam had recently..."

Yeah, riiiiight. Bastards!

[snippy]

11. How's your accuracy?

[IndianaGreen]

2. Is this Chalabi saying today that he told Bremer this last week?

Chalabi is a compulsive liar, and he was the sole source on WMD to the NY Times, and he may have been the source for Tony Blair's 45-minutes WMD launch story.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. yes that is exactly what Chalabi said..."he informed US intell last week..

that the UN compound in Iraq would be attacked"

[WilliamPitt]

5. I had a busted watch once

It was right twice a day.

Chalabi is the guy who fed Rumsfeld (and Miller of the NYTimes) the current fiction about Iraqi WMDs, al Qaeda connections, etc.

Chalabi is one of the main reasons we are in this mess.

Chalabi is also the one Jordan is trying to extradite out of Iraq so he can serve his 22 year prison sentence for the 32 counts of bank fraud he was convicted of in 1991.

If Chalabi told me the sky was blue, I'd open a window to confirm it.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. CBS just asked if the US ignored warning about UN attack!...kick

[IkeWarnedUs]

7. Chalabi's warning shed a new light on this story

<snip>

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., had set up a meeting with Sergio Vieira de Mello, the chief U.N. official in Iraq, who was killed in the attack.

"I thought it was important to meet with the U.N. envoy and to discuss the U.N.'s role with the coalition forces in Iraq," Cantwell said.

But mechanical problems with the delegation's C-130 plane out of Jordan delayed the 1:30 p.m. meeting at coalition headquarters, Cantwell said, so she tentatively set up a telephone call with Vieira de Mello for later. The bomb went off at 4:30 p.m.

link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/08/19/national1809EDT0747.DTL

[StandWatie]

8. maybe Chalabi's guys did it

He isn't exactly the most popular person in Iraq and under any sort of fair election system he probably couldn't be elected dog-catcher so he had something of a motive.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. yup that's what i said...Chalabi with Bush/Bremer blessings

[Tinoire]

10. BINGO!

Chalabi's guys or Chalabi's friends.

[karlschneider]

12. YES! He and his buds in the White House had more to potentially gain

than anyone else.

[Emboldened Chimp]

13. What can the bums in the WH possibly gain from this?

[Junkdrawer]

17. How about:

1.) Getting the progressive factions of the UN out of Iraq

2.) Linking Saddam and al Qaeda in a current and pressing threat

[Emboldened Chimp]

20. Point one is well taken

Point two doesn't need reinforcement; most Americans already believe that there was a connection.

However, ridding Iraq of the UN will piss off most countries and put our poor standing with them in even worse condition than it already is.

[stickdog]

21. As if the neocons cared about other countries (NT)

[Junkdrawer]

15. You mean THIS guy...

[MrPrax]

14. He did...Insider Knowledge

There is a spate of editorials all asking why exactly the UN compound would have been bombed...
But early reports (scrubbed) or I would post had eyewitnesses say it was a 'rocket' and just curious if anyone else heard this tidbit...that the UN was having a press conference at the time (the Japanese caught the explosion on tape--heard it)
But US media didn't attend the UN press conference...and well apparantly a Rep. was suupose to be at 'ground zero' but delayed in Jordan due to mechanical failure...
Nawh...it would be tinfoil stuff to suggest this was a US action...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

16. MrPrax...yup heard it all...and you are correct

[MrPrax]

19. Ah...OK

I just figured it was an 'urban' legend that none of the US media was in attendence...
Rather strange

[Junkdrawer]

18. Correct except the meeting was supposed to be at US Mil. HQ..

not at UN HQ.