MUST Read TPM - Iraq Fiefdoms for Sale

[NashVegas]

Imagine that. Last night we told you about Joe Allbaugh, President Bush's longtime right-hand-man who just opened a company to get into the Iraq contract business. And last week we told you about how Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith's old law firm, Feith & Zell, has now opened a new division specializing in hooking up clients with the sweetest deals in Iraq. Feith & Zell is now Zell, Goldberg & Co, though they haven't yet gotten around to changing their website address, which is still www.fandz.com.

Well, there's more.

Let me introduce you to the Iraqi International Law Group, a new outfit ready to help you secure contracts for rebuilding Iraq. And let me also introduce you to the head of IILG, Salem Chalabi.

Name sound familiar? Related to Ahmed Chalabi? You bet: Salem's Ahmed's nephew.

Now, Salem just got his website up online. And he seems to have gotten some help because up until a couple days ago the site address was registered under the name of Marc Zell. Right, that Marc Zell, Feith's former law partner. ...

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

[mike_c]

1. the feeding frenzy is beginning to draw the smaller scavengers now....

Haliburton, KBR, and Bechtel have temporarily sated themselves on the corpse of Iraq, so now the second tier scavengers are moving in.

[NashVegas]

2. Yeah

Interesting that all the heat is on Cheney right now, and look what these guys are doing!

Or don't.

[tsipple]

3. We Have a Kleptocracy

Eerie parallels to some of the kleptocracies in Africa. :grr: