OK, this is just too weird for words. For many years, Mark A. Zell had a Jerusalem based law firm, Zell, Goldberg. Zell is a member of Gush Emunim, ultraorthodox splinter party, further to the right than Likud. The radical settler's movement.
In DC, Zell hooked up with Douglas Feith, now Assistant Defense Secretary, and formed Feith and Zell, aka FANDZ, an international law firm. When Feith went to work for the Pentagon, the law firm changed the name to Zell, Goldberg but kept the FANDZ acronym.
fandz.com
Ahmed Chalabi's nephew, Salem Chalabi, is also a lawyer. Salem was, in fact, was in charge of the Iraqi War Crimes Tribunal until he was charged with murder. He has, or had, an international company himself, IILG, whose website is registered to Zell, and whose address is the same as FANDZ, that is, the law firm of Zell, Goldberg, that is Doug Feith's old law partners.
Larry Franklin works for Doug Feith.
I could mention that FANDZ is a big player in Iraqi reconstruction contracts, which isn't so strange considering that the ties to Chalabi. Zell is IILG's "marketing consultant."
I guess this is how business is done in the Middle East.
But if Larry Franklin is passing things FROM Israel TO the Pentagon which in turn gets "stove-piped" to the White House, bypassing the CIA -- Elliot Abrams is mentioned -- that's something else entirely.
Edit: forgot to mention, James Woollsey, former head of CIA, is Ahmed Chalabi's lawyer and represents the Iraqi National Congress, which is apparently the source of most of the bogus WMD information.
Sounds like something Michael Moore would come up with, but if true, the plate tectonics in Washington will indeed shift. |
