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| Chalabi Passed U.S. Intelligence to Iran -CBS |
| 2004-05-21 |
| Ahmad Chalabi, Washington’s former top Iraqi ally whose house in Baghdad was raided by U.S. troops on Thursday, passed sensitive U.S. intelligence to Iran that could "get Americans killed," CBS Evening News said. "Senior U.S. officials told us today that they have evidence Chalabi has been passing highly classified U.S. intelligence to Iran," the report said on Thursday. "The evidence shows that Chalabi personally gave Iranian intelligence officers information so sensitive that if revealed it could ... ’get Americans killed.’ The evidence is said to be ’rock solid."’ There was no independent confirmation of the report. CBS said an aide to Chalabi dismissed the charges as "nonsense" and said they were part of an effort by the CIA to discredit him. The report quoted unnamed sources as saying a senior member of Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress "is believed to have been recruited by Iran’s intelligence agency and is on their payroll." A high-level investigation is under way to determine who in the U.S. government gave Chalabi such sensitive information, CBS said. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #7 Sadly, I think Garrison is right; he deserves at least the benefit of the doubt, and based on what I've heard I slightly take his side on this question ... |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-05-21 10:21:01 PM |
| #6 CBS news under Rather provide the nation's enemies with aid, comfort and actionable intelligence daily. Ditto Jennings, Brokaw and the minions of LEFTmedia scum. Chalabi is a hero compared to our homegrown traitors. |
| Posted by: Garrison 2004-05-21 4:19:12 PM |
| #5 Chalabi may have gotten what information he got legitimately--since we considered him one of the good guys, we may have been letting him in on things, either out of courtesy or operational necessity. Or not. I think we'll know soon enough. |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-05-21 2:19:39 PM |
| #4 Doc - absolutely. Perhaps using the Ansar al-Islam as mules. |
| Posted by: Sofia 2004-05-21 12:53:07 PM |
| #3 I threw this out yesterday, but if nobody minds I'd like to do it again (and you can't stop me even if you do mind, heh-heh): Could there be a connection between Chalabi's Iranians and the guys who support al-Sadr? Might this insurgent have been getting the inside info on the GC via Iran via Chalabi? |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-05-21 11:16:50 AM |
| #2 Hmmm... If true, and rock solid has only one meaning in this sense, and if we decide to do something about it before the handover, he can be taken out and summarily shot. Today. Now. Q.E.D. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-21 11:11:09 AM |
| #1 That last sentence is the real meat of this story. If Chalabi or one of his aides is working for the Iranians, how did he get the information? Was the CPA/CIA sharing it with Chalabi? That doesn't make much sense. So there's an Iranian mole in CPA/CIA/DoD. Maybe we've returned to the Cold War pattern of ideological recruitments -- that is, maybe there are crypto-Islamists embedded in key U.S. agencies. So there's your dose of paranoia for the day... |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2004-05-21 11:02:15 AM |