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Chalabi's Star Rises Again with Iranian Intrigues in Baghdad
Ahmed Chalabi , the erstwhile Iraqi exile who intrigued with Pentagon officials and the media to create a casus belli for toppling Saddam Hussein , is up to his old tricks. Chalabi's star plunged when it turned out Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, as the steady stream of informants he ...
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Chalabi A ‘Key Figure’ In Iranian Efforts To Scuttle U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement
Think Progress — The United States and Iraq are currently engaged in “tense” negotiations regarding the future of the U.S. military presence in Iraq after the U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year. Just yesterday, the Iraqi Cabinet proposed changes that the U.S. has yet to approve. But now, CQ’s Jeff Stein reports that according to NBC investigative reporter Aram Roston, former Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi — the White House’s favorite Iraqi in the run-up to the Iraq war — has been helping the Iranians stand ...

From the say it isn't so files...
Greatscat! — From the say it isn't so files... [image] 1) Huffington Post writer stabs lover 222 times. [image] 2) Barack Obama eyes Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff [image] 3) Evil troll makes creepy predictions... [image] 4) Military Investigates Amnesia Beams [image] 5) Ahmed Chalabi crawls back out from under rock. -Diane Stumble Upon Toolbar Stumble It! on Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM | | | Permalink [image] [image] Post a Comment Links to this post See links to this post "> "> ...

From The Neocon Stylings of John Sydney McCain, Super Genius…
Firedoglake — ... stylings are just too timid for the macho-posturing, neo-muscular policy of McCain and the swaggering stylings of his neocon coterie. Oh yeah, how consistent with McCain's prior mavericiousness and principle-osity. Sincerely. The purveyors of national security failure and long-term lunacy lurk around every McCain national security policy corner. If they can't even rid us of the scourge they created in Ahmed Chalabi, why exactly should we trust them to protect us from anything, especially ...

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