Who's our S.O.B now?
Date: Wednesday, June 30 @ 11:27:09 UTC
Topic: enquiry
by Philip Cunliffe
Remember Ahmed Chalabi? The shady, silken-suited leader of the anti-Saddam Iraqi National Congress (INC), and supposed Iraqi frontman for the neo-cons. With all the turmoil in Iraq, and now America's so-called 'transfer of sovereignty' on 28 June, it is difficult to recall the role that Chalabi was once destined to play in the Pentagon's post-Saddam vision for Iraq.
Chalabi had been the authoritative source for all those stories about Iraq's stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. He was flown into Iraq with US special forces following the 2003 invasion, and rapidly established himself as the head of both the Interim Governing Council's Economics and Finance Committee and its de-Ba'athification committee (1). Critics of America predicted the ex-banker rapidly ascending to the Iraqi presidency, supervising the privatisation of the Iraqi oil industry, the dismantling of OPEC, and the subsequent deluge of cheap oil to slake America's energy appetite.
Full Article : spiked-online.com
The Truth About Ahmed Chalabi
May 20, 2004
Why the US Turned Against Their Former Golden Boy -- He was Preparing a Coup! What He Did as a Catspaw for Tehran: How He Nearly Bankrupted Jordan; the Billions He Stands to Make Out of the New Iraq Full Article : counterpunch.org
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