Has Chalabi given 'sensitive' information on U.S. interests to Iran? He de

[dixielib]

May 10 issue - Ahmad Chalabi, the longtime Pentagon favorite to become leader of a free Iraq, has never made a secret of his close ties to Iran. Before the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress maintained a $36,000-a-month branch office in Tehran—funded by U.S. taxpayers. INC representatives, including Chalabi himself, paid regular visits to the Iranian capital. Since the war, Chalabi's contacts with Iran may have intensified: a Chalabi aide says that since December, he has met with most of Iran's top leaders, including supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his top national-security aide, Hassan Rowhani. "Iran is Iraq's neighbor, and it is in Iraq's interest to have a good relationship with Iran," Chalabi's aide says.

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But U.S. intelligence agencies have recently raised concerns that Chalabi has become too close to Iran's theocratic rulers. NEWSWEEK has learned that top Bush administration officials have been briefed on intelligence indicating that Chalabi and some of his top aides have supplied Iran with "sensitive" information on the American occupation in Iraq. U.S. officials say that electronic intercepts of discussions between Iranian leaders indicate that Chalabi and his entourage told Iranian contacts about American political plans in Iraq. There are also indications that Chalabi has provided details of U.S. security operations. According to one U.S. government source, some of the information Chalabi turned over to Iran could "get people killed." (A Chalabi aide calls the allegations "absolutely false.")

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4881157/

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Oh Chalabi!.......

Is there anything you CAN'T do? (picture me sitting on my bed like a 13 year old girl staring at my Chalabi posters with a starry eyed stare...)

[cosmicaug]

2. If I had a piece of advice about Iraq...

If I had to give advice about Iraq it woud be to dump Chalabi. Everything else is just too complicated (in a damned if you do and damned if you don't sort of way).

[cliss]

3. Cool thread! Now there's the Chalabi I know.

What's the old saying...it takes a fox to outfox a fox, or something like that... The weasels in Washington picked this convicted bank fraudster as "their Man" in Iraq. (something happened along the way, I'm not sure what).

It just goes to show you that criminals and double-dealers (The BushInc administration) get the kind of business buddies they deserve. It's too bad he would rat on us, though, and give away classified information to our enemy, Iran...(one of the "axis of evil").

[TroglodyteScholar]

5. Correction

Wanted in Jordan, not convicted...unless I missed something elsewhere.

Still pretty sleazy, whatever the case.

[Mikimouse]

7. Tried and convicted in absentia, as I recall, and sentenced..

to 22 years in prison.

[0007]

4. This has all the earmarks of a set-up to oust Chalabi

[TacticalPeek]

6. A GD thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1514866

[lanlady]

8. I'm sure it's nothing--

--compared to what Perle and Wolfie have turned over to Israel.

[demgrrrll]

9. Good article May 1 on line TAP. All about Chalabi. I didn't know that

Perle and Chalabi both went to the University of Chicago
together. Buncha grifters. I also read in passing that this
group of Chicago boys were somehow involved with Pinochet and
the Chilean economy.

[pinto]

10. "The Grifters". Now there's an apt appelation for this whole crew .

[Disturbed]

12. Scum

That anyone in Bushco thought that the Iraqis would accept this scum as their leader shows just how arrogant these Bushco criminals are!

[PurityOfEssence]

11. And, of course, lest we forget, Chalabi IS a Shiite

Never forget the religious angle when dealing with this part of the world.

[daleo]

13. Chalabi will need somewhere to escape to, when the farce is over

He will probably have worn out his welcome in Washington and London, Jordan is out, so I suppose he is thinking Iran might be a safe harbor. Unlikely, though. I wonder if Devil's Island is still open for business.