Ahmed Chalabi Crash-Course Links

[Sapphocrat]

I received a few requests via http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=246987 for further Ahmed Chalabi info, and I don't want to hijack Junkdrawer's thread, so here they are.

This isn't a complete list by any means, but it's more than enough for a crash course in Chalabi-ism. (And be sure to do your PNAC homework if you haven't already -- everything will make a lot more sense!)

All links should be good; if any break, just Google the title of any article, and you'll no doubt come up with numerous mirrors. (Global Policy Forum - http://www.globalpolicy.org/ - mirrors almost everything you could ever hope to find, and is a fantastic resource in its own right.)

Subjects touched upon below include: Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress; Rumsfeld's "Office of Special Plans"; Chalabi's dreams of succeeding Saddam; Chalabi's lies & how they ended up in *'s speeches; why the neocons wanted Chalabi in the first place; plus: CIA $$$ backing of the INC; the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq & Gen. Wayne A. Downing, and much more:

"Committee for the Liberation of Iraq" Sets Up Shop
http://www.presentdanger.org/papers/libiraq_body.html
Jim Lobe, Foreign Policy In Focus, November, 2002

New Group Aims to Drum Up Backing for Ousting Hussein
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A64233-2002Nov3¬Found=true
Washington Post, November 4, 2002

PR Spinning the Bush Doctrine
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo1119.html
Kurt Nimmo, CounterPunch, November 19, 2002

Blood Money
http://truthout.org/docs_03/022803A.shtml
William Rivers Pitt, truthout, February 27, 2003

Should we go to war against Saddam?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,669024,00.html
Beaumont, Ahmed & Helmore, The Observer, March 17, 2002

Tracking Neocons and the War Party
http://neoconconjob.blogspot.com/
neoconjob, April 15, 2003

Selective Intelligence: Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources. Are they reliable?
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030512fa_fact
Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker, May 5, 2003

More Missing Intelligence
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030707&s=dreyfuss
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, June 19, 2003

Lack of planning contributed to chaos in Iraq
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/6285256.htm/
Jonathan S. Landay & Warren P. Strobel, Knight Ridder, July 12, 2003

Rumsfeld's personal spy ring
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/16/intelligence/index.html
Eric Boehlert, Salon.com, July 16, 2003

Preparing for War, Stumbling to Peace
http://www.latimes.com/la-na-postwar18jul18,0,7246541.story
Fineman, Wright, & McManus, Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2003

[foreigncorrespondent]

1. Kick!!!!

I am giving this one a kick Sapph, because even though I am not through all the links yet, this is very important for everyone to read. Know thyne enemy!

:kick:

[hang a left]

2. kick and thanks there

[Sapphocrat]

4. My pleasure, l&p

I live to serve. :)

[Sapphocrat]

3. Thanks, fc! I think it's very important, too! n/t