One Utah (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Senator McCain’s genius political consultants are trying to steer the presidential campaign away from the economy and its down-spiraling fundamentals. Instead, they want to talk about “past associations” of the candidates. Well, let’s talk. How about Senator McCain’s long friendship with Ahmed Chalabi, the crooked Iraqi politician and former exile who played a leading [...]
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber targeting the convoy of influential Shi'ite politician Ahmed Chalabi killed two people and wounded 17 others on Friday, Iraqi police said.
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Six people, including five from the entourage of Iraqi Shiite politician Ahmed Chalabi, were slain in a Baghdad suicide bombing attack, officials said.Chalabi, a one-time leader of Iraqi exiles in the United States during the regime of former President Saddam Hussein, escaped unharmed in the blast, CNN reported Saturday. Seventeen people were wounded in the explosion, including...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
A SUICIDE car bomber targeting the convoy of influential Shi'ite politician Ahmed Chalabi killed two people and wounded 17 others overnight, Iraqi police said.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Iraqi police say a suicide car bomber targeting the convoy of influential Shi'ite politician Ahmed Chalabi has killed two people and wounded 17 others. Chalabi, a key adviser to Washington in the build up to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, was not in the convoy, but five of his bodyguards were wounded. The other wounded were civilians.
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
A recent New York Times profile casts John McCain as a tough guy for his response to the attacks of September 11. The fact that McCain was duped by the charlatan Ahmed Chalabi doesn't seem to detract from the senator's reputation as a straight talking maverick. For that matter, nobody outside the blogosphere seems terribly concerned that McCain's top foreign policy and national security...
Lenin's Tomb (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Aram Roston's recently published biography of Ahmed Chalabi, The Man Who Pushed America to War , tells a strange tale about one aspect of the 'other war' against Iraq, the one that was pursued relentlessly throughout the 1990s in the form of sanctions, regular bombardment and covert action. In part, it is a character portrait of a crooked upper class Iraqi who, following what the Jordanian...
PERRspectives Blog (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
... McCain, "He's a patriot who has the best interests of his country at heart."John McCain, on Ahmed Chalabi, On Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction"I think we're doing fine [in Afghanistan]...I think we'll do fine. The second phase - if I could just make one, very quickly - the second phase is Iraq. There is some indication, and I don't have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
... building, and he spent 13 months in prison.His first visit to Israel, in 2004, got him booted from Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress; he ran as an independent and won a seat in parliament anyway. Two of his sons were killed in 2005 in an apparent attempt on his life.Ali al-Adeeb of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa Party opened Sunday's session by suggesting Alusi's recent...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
... building, and he spent 13 months in prison.His first visit to Israel, in 2004, got him booted from Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress; he ran as an independent and won a seat in parliament anyway. Two of his sons were killed in 2005 in an apparent attempt on his life.In recent weeks he has called for the resignation of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and others in the governing...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
... and he spent 13 months in prison.
His first visit to Israel, in 2004, got him booted from Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress; he ran as an independent and won a seat in parliament anyway. Two of his sons were killed in 2005 in an apparent attempt on his life.
In recent weeks he has called for the resignation of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and others in the...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
My following book review appears in today’s Weekend Australian newspaper: The Man Who Pushed America to War By Aram Roston Nation Books, 400pp, $49.95 Ahmed Chalabi, the chameleon-like Iraqi exile who fed bogus intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to the Bush administration and to willing media, told Britain’s The Daily Telegraph in 2004 that he regretted nothing. “We are [...]...
CNN (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least six people were killed and 50 wounded in a suicide car bombing Saturday at an outdoor market in northern Iraq, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.Ahmed Chalabi was unharmed in a car bombing, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. The midday attack in Tal Afar, about 45 miles west of Mosul in Nineveh province, was carried out less than a day after a car...
CNN (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least six people were killed and 50 wounded in a suicide car bombing Saturday at an outdoor market in northern Iraq, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.Ahmed Chalabi was unharmed in a car bombing, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.The midday attack in Tal Afar, about 45 miles west of Mosul in Nineveh province, was carried out less than a day after a car...
CNN (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least six people were killed and 50 wounded in a suicide car bombing Saturday at an outdoor market in northern Iraq, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.Ahmed Chalabi was unharmed in a car bombing, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. The midday attack in Tal Afar, about 45 miles west of Mosul in Nineveh province, was carried out less than a day after a car...
