Ex-Iraqi Prime Minister Who Ran A CIA-Financed Terrorist Group Says...

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...that Iraq is in a civil war. Why would he do that?

Don

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/images/Allawi,%20Cheney,%20Hastert%2020040923-2_d09230s.jpg

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1595634.htm

Allawi says Iraq in state of civil war

AM - Monday, 20 March , 2006 08:12:00
Reporter: Mark Willacy

TONY EASTLEY: Today marks three years since the US-led coalition launched the first missiles into Baghdad, heralding the start of the invasion of Iraq and the end of Saddam Hussein.

Now, three-years on, Iraq's former interim prime minister says his country is in the grip of civil war.

Iyad Allawi says dozens of people are dying each day, and he warns that unless something is done to stop the violence Iraq will soon reach the point of no return.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6297.htm

Ex-C.I.A. Aides Say Iraq Leader Helped Agency in 90's Attacks

By JOEL BRINKLEY

WASHINGTON, June 8 "New York Times" -- Iyad Allawi, now the designated prime minister of Iraq, ran an exile organization intent on deposing Saddam Hussein that sent agents into Baghdad in the early 1990's to plant bombs and sabotage government facilities under the direction of the C.I.A., several former intelligence officials say.

Dr. Allawi's group, the Iraqi National Accord, used car bombs and other explosive devices smuggled into Baghdad from northern Iraq, the officials said. Evaluations of the effectiveness of the bombing campaign varied, although the former officials interviewed agreed that it never threatened Saddam Hussein's rule.

No public records of the bombing campaign exist, and the former officials said their recollections were in many cases sketchy, and in some cases contradictory. They could not even recall exactly when it occurred, though the interviews made it clear it was between 1992 and 1995.

The Iraqi government at the time claimed that the bombs, including one it said exploded in a movie theater, resulted in many civilian casualties. But whether the bombings actually killed any civilians could not be confirmed because, as a former C.I.A. official said, the United States had no significant intelligence sources in Iraq then.

One former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was based in the region, Robert Baer, recalled that a bombing during that period "blew up a school bus; schoolchildren were killed." Mr. Baer, a critic of the Iraq war, said he did not recall which resistance group might have set off that bomb.

Dr. Allawi declined to respond to repeated requests for comment, made Monday and Tuesday through his Washington representative, Patrick N. Theros. The former intelligence officials, while confirming C.I.A. involvement in the bombing campaign, would not say how, exactly, the agency had supported it.

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1. They are going to have a hard time keeping all this bad news quiet

Feel almost sorry for them.

Oh wait, I totally don't.

Bryant
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