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To: Elsewhere who wrote (134529)	5/27/2004 2:58:53 AM
From: boris_a	Respond to of 281500

Why it began in the first place and continued for so long remains a mystery. Given the level of dilettantism and ignorance of this administration, I can't see any mystery. They succeed in visiting every Fettnäpfchen available (dropping every brick available?).

To: Elsewhere who wrote (134529)	5/27/2004 4:54:28 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 281500

The End of the Chalabi Affair? By Daniel Byman, Kenneth Pollack, and Gideon Rose Fascinating find, Jochen. Now if we could persuade tek to come out of retirement to comment on it. Lots of "I told you sos" are making the rounds these days.

To: Elsewhere who wrote (134529)	5/27/2004 12:19:36 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.