- A funny thing happened, early in May, when President
Bush met with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Washington. According to news
accounts, the Jordanian ruler provided the President with a dossier, revealing
that Ahmed Chalabi-the head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) and the
darling of the neo-cons in the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney, the
civilian apparatus at the Pentagon, and such Beltway think tanks as the
American Enterprise Institute and the Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs (JINSA)-was passing top secret U.S. government material to the
most radical ayatollahs in Iran.
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- It is no secret that the Jordanian government has had
deep misgivings about Chalabi's prominent role in the postwar Iraq occupation
government. Chalabi has a 22-year jail sentence awaiting him in Jordan,
as the result of massive fraud at his Petra Bank in the 1990s. The Jordanian
Ambassador in Washington and King Abdullah II have both publicly accused
Chalabi, and his INC, of being behind the bombing of the Jordanian embassy
in Baghdad in August 2003.
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- The King's dossier bolstered intelligence already in
the hands of the CIA and the National Security Agency, indicating, among
other things, that Chalabi's so-called Free Iraqi Force was heavily penetrated
by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. National Security Agency (NSA) intercepts
had revealed much deeper ties between Chalabi and radical factions within
the Islamic Republic than had been known to American officials previously.
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- This article in full appears in the
- http://www.larouchepub.com/eirtoc/2004/eirtoc_3122.html
- June 4, 2004 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
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