Jane Mayer made an interesting comment on Tweety's show...

[kentuck]

They were discussing Chalabi. She was talking about embezzlement and other crimes he had committed in Jordan and elsewhere. Also, she mentioned something about him running a forgery operation? Forgery? Like those Italian documents, perhaps? That he might have given to someone in the White House?? Anybody else catch that?

[Blaze Diem]

1. Superb Catch kentuck!!

They're stumbling over themselves..mistakes are bound to be made..cats will be let out of the bag..lots and lots of cats..and Bush gathering up his "base", will be like herding all them cats..on his ranch in Crawford..HAAAAAAAA

A Real Live Cat Herding Hoedown...eeeeeehhhaaaaaaa!

[Disturbed]

2. Ahmad Chalabi Faces Counterfeiting Charges

Friends of Saddam: Ahmad Chalabi Faces Counterfeiting Charges
Ahmad Chalabi Faces Counterfeiting Charges. Boston Globe: Iraq issues warrants
for Chalabi, nephew. BAGHDAD -- Iraq has issued arrest warrants for Ahmed ...

www.acepilots.com/unscam/archives/001137.html

[Carolab]

3. See: Harold Rhodes' Ghorbanifar, Miller, Ledeen, Chalabi connections

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2005/08/what_ahmed_chal.html

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Rhode's presence in Baghdad is very intriguing. Rhode is thought to be a leading candidate to be the person that leaked the Iran code data to Chalabi that would cause Defense to disown Chalabi in May 2004.He is also thought to be a leading candidate to be the "GO1" listed in the most recent Larry Franklin indictment (PDF). Suffice it to say, Rhode doesn't seem to be very good at keeping state secrets.

One more thing. Rhode's meeting with Ghorbanifar in June 2003--and many other like that--were explained by Rummy to be attempts to get information on Iran, perhaps an attempt by Douglas Feith to sabotage any agreement with Iran. But Rhode's visits with Ghorbanifar also coincide curiously with the development of the Niger forgery saga. And Ghorbanifar, it seems increasingly likely, may have been the guy to forward the forgeries to to SISMI.

Which is why I think it increasingly likely that the uranium document discovered (then lost) in Part Four is another forgery, planted in Iraq to close the loop on the discredited documents. One of the most likely participants in the Niger forgery caper was sitting there, in Iraq, at the time that document was discovered. And of course, all this happens at precisely the same time as Joe Wilson begins to go public with his refutation of the Niger forgeries.

It kind of stinks to be Chalabi, huh? You've got some of America's best and brightest, looking out for you. And it looks likely that you'll become king or president or benevolent dictator. Then, your two good friends Rhode and Judy are brought home to the US. And your political hopes start going south, fast. Which is why I think it's really sweet that Chalabi got to see his buddies again, when he went to DC just after Plame gets outed.

In the audience when Dick Cheney spoke Thursday at the American Enterprise Institute was Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress and one of the 25 members of the Iraqi National Governing Council appointed earlier this month by administrator L. Paul Bremer. Chalabi did not speak to Cheney, who entered and left the stage without speaking privately to anyone, but Chalabi did exchange warm greetings with Defense Department official Harold Rhode and with Judith Miller of the New York Times and other reporters.

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