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[Cambridge Forecast Group Blog] AHMAD CHALABI & THE NEOCON WAR IN IRAQ : ARAM ROSTON BOOK ...: According to Salem Chalabi, quoted in the National Journal, Mr Zell is IILG’s “marketing consultant” and has been contacting US law firms in Washington and New York to ask if they have clients interested in doing business in Iraq.

[Sic Semper Tyrannis] Sic Semper Tyrannis : "We wuz robbed." Chalabi, Bush and Iran.: from Chalabi and his old Jordanian Hashemite patron, Prince Hassan: "The predominantly Shi'a population of southern Lebanon has been tied for centuries to the Shi'a leadership in Najaf, Iraq, rather than Iran. Were the Hashemites to control Iraq, they could use their influence over Najaf to help Israel wean the south Lebanese Shi'a away from Hizbollah, Iran, and Syria.

[Countercurrents.org] The Inexplicable Enrichment Of Bush Cronies By Evelyn Pringle: Back on September 30, 2003, during the Senate debate over the first Iraq spending bill, Senator John Edwards said he refused to funnel the $87 billion to Cheney and other Bush cronies after learning that Bush's former campaign manager, Joe Allbaugh, who was later appointed to head FEMA, had quit his job 3 weeks before the bombs began to fall in Iraq to start the consulting firm, New Bridge Strategies, for clients seeking contracts in Iraq.

[Crooks and Liars] Douglas Feith: Iraq was not a retaliation for the 9/11 attacks ...: Remember, these are all followers of Leo Strauss, who opined that leaders have an obligation to lie to the public in order to take the actions they (the leaders) have decided are necessary to take in order to achieve the goals they (the leaders) have decided are necessary to achieve.

[Iran Press Service - News Feed] NOT EVERYTHING IS HONEY BETWEEN AMERICANS AND ISRAELIS (Iran Press ...: Started again after the war which drove out Saddam Hussein of power in Baghdad in 2003, the secret security co-operation between Israelis and Kurds of Iraq underwent a major setback these last months, under pressures from Washington. Only about one hundred remain and the Israeli businessmen do not act practically any more but via Kurdish or Jordanian intermediaries.

[Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Truthdig - Reports - Obama's Meaningless War: (He could have chosen his words more carefully, but he wants to keep his job, too, eh?) He really said (according to Juan Cole, who speaks Farsi) that he wanted regime change (sound familiar?), to have an Israeli government who would settle the dispute and have peace with the Palestinians over the Left Bank, Gaza and Israel, and all their lives.

[The Invisible Opportunity: Hidden Truths Revealed] 911, Iraq, PNAC , All Roads Lead to Israel « The Invisible ...: The equity firm profitting form the Iraq War like Trireme (Perle and Kissinger) and the law firms processing contracts like Feith and Zell (Douglad Feith and Marc Zell an Israeli Settler) the Anthrax attack (Dr. Philp Zack) and the anthrax attack speech (written by Lewis Libby) the PNAC documents, the DPG (Libby and Wolfowitz) the lies from jounalists (Safire gardian of Zion award winner) (Judith Miller, love affair with Libby) (Russert, Novak, all of FOX etc) about Iraq’s WMD were all connected back to the same Zionist cabal in the DOD and office of the vice president.

[Political Punch] Lieberman on His Private Chat with Obama, Rev. Wright, and How ...: It’s worth remembering that it was Lieberman, along with Trent Lott, who led the effort in the Senate to fund Chalabi and the Iraq National Congress through passage of the Iraqi Liberation Act in 1998, and it was Lieberman and McCain who served as the two “honorary co-chairmen” of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI), the elite group that was put together by the administration and Chalabi’s pals at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), to lobby for invading Iraq in the fall of 2002.

[Enterprising Kiddstuff on the Web] Enterprising Kiddstuff on the Web: Busy Busy Busy Haikus: Haiku is the perfect compliment to Elton's posts-- conveniently summarized for busy busy busy people. And when it works...

[Moon of Alabama] M of A - Kirkuk-Haifa Pipeline Article Was Written in 2003: Chalabi met with Zell and other neoconservatives many times from the mid-1990s on in London, Turkey, and the U.S. Zell outlines what Chalabi was promising the neocons before the Iraq war: "He said he would end Iraq's boycott of trade with Israel, and would allow Israeli companies to do business there. He said [the new Iraqi government] would agree to rebuild the pipeline from Mosul [in the northern Iraqi oil fields] to Haifa [the Israeli port, and the location of a major refinery]."

[Informed Comment] Informed Comment: Curveball is Alive: When I depended on some folks named for this Team B in the run up to Iraq their information provided me with all I needed to vehemently oppose this war when 80% of the country was for it. 50% of them had to change their minds in awhile.

[La Shawn Barber's Corner] Secret Terrorist Prisons: If you haven’t yet seen former Senator Zell Miller’s guest commentary in yesterday’s Atlanta Journal Constitution about the elements within the CIA waging war against President Bush, it’s worth a look (there are links to it on Lucianne’s LDot site).

[Being American in TO] Being American in T.O.: Iraq Archives: It is puzzling to me that the same people who refuse to believe the US government when it says its forces hit a terrorist safe house, not a wedding partner, are all credulity when anonymous sources inside that same government declare that Ahmed Chalabi is the center of a vast sinister conspiracy.David Frum makes a number of sensible points about all the rumours and unknowns that dominate this story, including those that the raid was connected to seizing documents that related to the Oil-for-Food (UNSCAM) investigation.

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