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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Elsewhere who wrote (134529)5/27/2004 12:19:36 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Re: Chalabi -- I can't help but want to "walk back the cat" a little -- it seems improbable that we were totally unaware of his relationship with Iran -- and more likely that he was a conduit, a two-way street. Every so often in the year or so between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, we'd get news that Iran was doing amazing things like rounding up Al Qaeda members and throwing them out, or giving them to us, or otherwise feeding us intelligence, especially during the Afghanistan war. Chalabi is as reasonable a source for that as not.

Which is not to minimize his flaws -- dishonesty, duplicity, double dealing, triple dealing, self dealing, and fraud. All of which were widely known and reported for years.

Perhaps the Iranians got the better end of the deal.
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