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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 05:05 PM
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Hadley linked to some Iran-Contra figures in 2001 meeting?
Did you all notice this tidbit in the latest breaking story from RawStory about Hadley??

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/National_Security_Adviser_was_Woodwards_source_1116.html

Prior to the Iraq Niger claims, a strange meeting in late 2001 whose purpose is unknown links a former Iran Contra figure and Iranian arms dealer with Michael Ledeen, then an alleged consultant to the Under-Secretary of Defense, Douglas Feith. Feith informs Hadley (Hadley later claims that Ghorbanifar was not involved).

CIA director George Tenet later intervenes, and Hadley asks Ledeen to end the meetings. The agency believed Ghorbanifar was a serial liar and barred its officers from engaging him; the meetings continue regardless.


Interesting...
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 05:07 PM
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1. This was in one of Octafish's threads on the BFEE. It is no exaggeration
Edited on Wed Nov-16-05 05:23 PM by blm
when we say that everything that is happening today is rooted in IranContra and especially BCCI.
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ray of light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 05:11 PM
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2. kerry knows about this...!
Gotta wonder if any of this will come to light or if it's just past history.
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 05:47 PM
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4. I sure wouldn't call it 'past' history, these people have long memories
and long-term agendas. They've been scheming and scamming us for decades.

If they truth ever really came out, it would make anything Oliver Stone came up with look like a Dick and Jane reader.
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Wordie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 05:30 PM
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3. Here's a bit more on Hadley, and on that meeting, and other info:DailyKos
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/26/53042/825
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"The first meeting occurred in Rome in December, 2001. It included Franklin, Rhode, and another American, the neoconservative writer and operative Michael Ledeen, who organized the meeting. (According to UPI, Ledeen was then working for Feith as a consultant.) Also in attendance was Ghorbanifar and a number of other Iranians. One of the Iranians, according to two sources familiar with the meeting, was a former senior member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who claimed to have information about dissident ranks within the Iranian security services. The Washington Monthly has also learned from U.S. government sources that Nicolo Pollari, the head of Italy's military intelligence agency, SISMI, attended the meetings, as did the Italian Minister of Defense Antonio Martino, who is well-known in neoconservative circles in Washington. "

On to....

Rozens's pulling the now known contacts and dates of the neo's second Roman holiday and with the same Pollari, chief of Italian intelligence. Plus assorted goodies of concidence.

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10506

# Italy's intelligence chief met with Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley just a month before the Niger forgeries first surfaced

# Nicolo Pollari, chief of Italy's military intelligence service, known as Sismi, brought the Niger yellowcake story directly to the White House after his insistent overtures had been rejected by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2001 and 2002.

# Sismi had reported to the CIA on October 15, 2001, that Iraq had sought yellowcake in Niger, a report it also plied on British intelligence, creating an echo that the Niger forgeries themselves purported to amplify before they were exposed as a hoax.

# Pollari also met secretly in Washington on September 9, 2002, with then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.

# Pollari had previously insisted that the only member of the U.S. administration he met with was his former CIA counterpart George Tenet.

# La Repubblica also now quotes a Bush administration official saying, "I can confirm that on September 9, 2002, General Nicolo Pollari met Stephen Hadley."

# The significance of that date is because three days later a story in Panorama a weekly owned by Italian Prime Minister and Bush ally Silvio Berlusconi claimed that Iraq's intelligence agency, the Mukhabarat, had acquired 500 tons of uranium from Nigeria through a Jordanian intermediary.

Too many concidences between the neos and Rome? Wonder what Fritz thinks.

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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:04 PM
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5. Fritz? You mean Fitz? I do the same thing
;)


Thanks for the links!
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Wordie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:43 PM
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6. Really, it was part of the quote, but I too have been known to do that! nt
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