Chalabi expected to meet US officials in Washington

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi leader accused of giving the Bush administration flawed information about Saddam Hussein's weapons program, will visit Washington in November amid speculation that U.S. officials view him as an acceptable candidate for Iraqi prime minister.

The November visit was first reported by Time magazine, which said in its October 31 edition that Chalabi is due to meet with national security adviser Stephen Hadley.

His Iraqi National Congress directed defectors to the U.S. government with intelligence on Iraq's weapons program that critics now say was largely crafted to prod the United States into taking action against Saddam.

The Pentagon, one of Chalabi's main prewar supporters, paid the INC $340,000 a month for intelligence on Iraq.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2005-10-23T194952Z_01_MOL370737_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-CHALABI.xml

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It is because of Chalabi that 2,000 GIs have died in Iraq.

Chalabi is definitely part of their early plans to fix the intel around the policy.

was charging Chalabi as being a spy for Iran and that we were through dealing with this monkey.

Chalabi is most welcome in the US.

can provide.

Italian authorities have concluded that his people were involved in the Niger forgery.

He was Judy Miller's prime source for Iraq disinformation.

The CIA has always regarded him as an agent-provacateur.

Maybe Abu Gharaib was a good idea...

Seize him!!!

:grr:

and this man haunts America!!! JAIL HIM for LIFE!!!

Defense Fund for more than 1 billion dollars.Chalabi was given 27/34
contracts by his buddy Allawi.Shoddy equipment was substituted for
"new" plus many suitcases,boxes and trucks packed with brand new shrink-wrapped 100's bills.He should be made to submit documents des-
cribing how that taxpayer dollar was spent....

I wonder if she'll be waiting with open arms to greet her good
friend?

Ahmed Chalabi.

Why Chalabi cannot be exposed? He has 2 TONS of Saqddam Documents hidden. In the event of his death those documents will be released to News Media.

;-)

I hope he has some wicked competant bodyguards. He is nothing but green rotting slime and why this visit in the first place? The man is a nothing but a con artist. How did it come about that he ammassed such power?

Maybe Bush will hold hands with him and kiss him on both cheeks?

Chalabi sat right behind Pickles for Stupidhead's State of the Whatever speech early in 2003, but became "Ahmad who?" just a few months later when his corruption was exposed and put the final kibosh on the American invasion (we just haven't quite figured out that we've lost yet).

Now he's back to being our great and good friend in Iraq, is he?

Neocon Lets Cat Out of Bag
Robert Dreyfuss
May 19, 2004


Michael Rubin--a young staffer at the American Enterprise Institute who’s just left the Pentagon, where he played a small role as a neocon cog in the Office of Special Plans war machine--let a herd of cats out of the bag about his favorite Iraqi phony, Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress.

Chalabi, of course, is the roly-poly perpetrator of intelligence fraud and the convicted bank embezzler who still hopes to be leader of Iraq. Lately, Chalabi has scuttled into a would-be alliance with Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani, the scowly fatwa man. In doing so, he’s had the temerity to criticize the United States, leading some fuzzy thinkers to believe that Chalabi, whose puppet strings are made of steel, might be trying to show some independence from Washington. Well, says Rubin, who served as one the Pentagon’s liaisons to Chalabi, that’s exactly what they want you to think:

"Much of the information he collected was to roll up the insurgency and Ba'athist cells. It caught people red-handed," said Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser who is now at a conservative think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute.

"By telegraphing that he is not the favorite son of America, the administration will bolster him, showing he is his own man."

In other words, it’s all a big con game. The still-neocon-dominated Pentagon--which this week stopped funding Chalabi’s INC--is playing its last card, hoping that it can boost Chalabi’s sagging fortunes by pretending to sever ties with him. That, the neocons hope, will allow Chalabi to strengthen his ties to Sistani, the king-making mullah who, they hope, holds Iraq’s fate in his wrinkled hands.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/neocon_lets_cat_out_of_bag.php

From AFP...

The visit is likely to mark a political rehabilitation in the United States of the controversial former Iraqi exile leader, whose Baghdad headquarters were raided in 2004 and who was accused of passing on secret information to Iran.

The Time magazine report says Chalabi will have potentially more significant meetings with national security adviser Stephen Hadley and perhaps Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Both now believe Chalabi is a plausible and acceptable candidate to be the next prime minister of Iraq when that nation votes for a new government on December 15, Time notes, citing unnamed high-ranking administration officials.

The magazine says there are few optimists about Iraq left in the Congress, intelligence community or US military.

But the Bush administration harbors a strand of hope that the election will finally produce a strong Iraqi government, a real coalition of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, the report argues.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051023/pl_afp/usiraqchalabi_051023211217;_ylt=Ak0f_CEDyjfecnDB8jtijFBX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

and a hotel room at the federal prison next to Judy and Scooter!!!

Might as well put Chalabi away while he's here--

No matter how corrupt or evil he is, he'll always have friends in this white house.

For a few thousand dollars donation, he'll give you an embassy. For forged documents and lies to get us into war, he'll give you a country.

$340,000 a month we paid him for lies...and they think he'd make a great PM.

forget.

the stink is bad ....

I'm moving to Canada. Don't these guys ever learn?

and the keys to the car!

IIRC, is a player in the Plame affair. Mr. Hadley reportedly wants to install--oops, I mean, elect--Chalabi as Iraq's prime minister.

I wish we could put Chalabi in a room with Saddam for just 10 minutes.