Ahmad Chalabi person
also: C-H-A-L-A-B-I, Chilabi, Khalabi, Shalabi, Chalabi
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Claims (8)
CIA supplied_arms_to
Ahmad Chalabi host_asserted
“for a coup on a schedule were what led the CIA astray. Merrick later recalled, we lost our way. Shalabi's plan looked to fit the demands for a schedule. Merrick did not go up or down on the plan, but an Afghan project veteran, he started pr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 43:33
Ahmad Chalabi founded
Petra Bank documented
“So the banking scandals were not limited to the U.S. In Jordan in the early 80s, a wealthy American educated expat Iraqi had gone into banking business with the permission of King Hussein's brother, Crown Prince Hassan. Ahmed Chalabi, C-H-A…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 59:22
Saddam Hussein covered_up
Ahmad Chalabi host_asserted
“at Erbil fled across the Turkish border. Iraqi troops seized Qalabi's offices with their computers and files. Baghdad flung 20,300 troops and 350 tanks into the Kurdish territory. Congressmen who had talked up the possibilities against Sadd…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 57:41
United States funded
Ahmad Chalabi documented
“Congress voted $100 million for the project. Clinton, of course, signed it. Neither the Shalabi nor the Alawi groups had been able to topple Saddam, but they became recipients of millions and millions of U.S. dollars. Payments went on for a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 1:00:30
Ahmad Chalabi spied_on
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“in the handling of the funds. Dang, where have I heard that before? But that's when Shalabi began feeding alarming claims of Saddam's alleged nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons to the Pentagon. So I wonder who, so the CIA was paying …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 1:00:59
Ahmad Chalabi spied_on
United States host_asserted
“He had twice failed already to impose himself as the mayor of Baghdad, sided with Shiite militants to reinvent his career. Linked to the Ayatollah of Iran, Shalabi would later be revealed as an Iranian spy among the mix and had been handing…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 1:02:32
CIA funded
Ahmad Chalabi host_asserted
“was right. Most of the CIA's cash went for the care and feeding of the exiles, which it always does, kind of like the Cuban exiles and the Venezuelan exiles. That might have been all right if the CIA had some prospect of depositing it back …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 40:01
SAIC paid
Ahmad Chalabi book_quoted
“SAIC had been tasked the paymaster for the Iraqi exile community as part of a government contract of $33 million.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 12 @ 24:50
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▶ 24:21
person participating in the charade was Wayne Downing, D-O-W-N-I-N-G. He's a retired general and also worked closely with Ahmad Chalabi, C-H-A-L-A-B-I. While sitting on the SAIC Board of Directors, Downing would insist that Iraqi exiles…
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such as the lobby, was ready to take the war overseas. Downing would have, in theory, been in a position to know. SAIC had been tasked the paymaster for the Iraqi exile community as part of a government contract of $33 million. And I have t…
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But you get the idea. So everywhere we go and displace a bunch of people and bring them in, this DIA sets up a paymaster for that immigrant community and uses our money to put them on a payroll to use them as assets. That's what I just desc…
▶ 59:22
So the banking scandals were not limited to the U.S. In Jordan in the early 80s, a wealthy American educated expat Iraqi had gone into banking business with the permission of King Hussein's brother, Crown Prince Hassan. Ahmed Chalabi, C-H-A…
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which moved large amounts of money into secret networks and did business with both Israel and Iran. Like BCCI and the savings and loan fraud, the Petra Bank would collapse several years later. It's just like Nugent Hand. I looked at it brie…
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They funneled over $300,000 a month to Rendon. The propagandists in the CIA encouraged a range of exile groups to attend a Congress in Vienna where the Iraqi National Congress was created, which basically is just a fake CIA front. That's wh…
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including the former chief of staff, all heroes from the Iran-Iraq war. There was a number of generals involved, a prime minister's son, and senior diplomats. After this happened, the CIA focused on the dissidents. There were no easy relati…
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The Iraqis were sincere enough and made a start at their anti-Saddam messaging. Langley tried to multiply the impact using the Rirdik group, of course. Thus, the Iraq project attained the level of psychological warfare. But a fresh intellig…
▶ 41:02
to bring Saddam down or play an important role in the post-Saddam government. So in other words, you're just pissing in the wind, spending tens of millions of US taxpayer dollars, and God knows what, covertly. Shalabi talked the talk. He wr…
▶ 41:34
their rallying point. After the meeting with Shalabi began dividing his time between Kurdistan and the West, organizing in one place, lobbying in others. Saddam's view of Shalabi's efforts may be gauged by the 1994 attempted bombing of his …
▶ 43:33
for a coup on a schedule were what led the CIA astray. Merrick later recalled, we lost our way. Shalabi's plan looked to fit the demands for a schedule. Merrick did not go up or down on the plan, but an Afghan project veteran, he started pr…
▶ 46:31
pressed for more information. Next came Shalabi and the Kurds. Baer had met the exile leader soon after joining the group. Shalabi had pressed for a permanent CIA presence in the north. Now that Bob had arrived, Shalabi invited him to meet …
▶ 47:33
The other was Jalal-Talibani. They were at each other's throats. Shalabi decided the only way to bridge the differences was to have everyone fight Saddam. He activated his scheme for an uprising. Project Achilles. Baer put Shalabi's initiat…
▶ 48:03
In Shalabi's scheme, the Kurds would attack Iraqi army units opposite them, while in the south, the Shia would rise up on their own. Hold on, let me get Bridget back up here. Saddam's army, according to Shalabi's ready to revolt, could coll…
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Shalabi had one plan while over the weeks he divulged more details of his own. It hinged on Saddam retreating to his stronghold where he would be toppled. A tank force would run interference with several army units combined to counter loyal…
▶ 49:05
So much for the concept. Director Deutsch, Woolsey's successor, not only approved Achilles, he asked the task force to set markers to measure success. Yeah, get out your spreadsheet. Let's put up some points of timelines and chart this all …
▶ 51:32
Versus the CIA. They don't even like Iran, by the way. They like the CIA even less. At least one faction. At the last moment, Barsani pulled out of the uprising. Talabani, furious, made only small efforts. Shalabi went ahead and his group r…
▶ 52:40
of course. Langley had an alternative to Shalabi, the Iraqi National Accord, INA, which British intelligence had been pushing on the CIA for months. Their SIS believed Alawi had better, deeper roots in Iraq and had a better potential of suc…
▶ 53:11
like them. Alawi stayed away from the Bob plan and stepped up to the plate once it failed. If it wanted to accomplish anything, Langley had no choice but to go along. Not everyone at the agency agreed with the play both ends strategy. Warre…
▶ 57:41
at Erbil fled across the Turkish border. Iraqi troops seized Qalabi's offices with their computers and files. Baghdad flung 20,300 troops and 350 tanks into the Kurdish territory. Congressmen who had talked up the possibilities against Sadd…
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Shalabi troops had worked with the CIA retreated to the Turkish border. And let me just tell you, they hate the Kurds. In fact, American diplomats met with Barzani and Turkish officials arranging refugee status for the former U.S. relief em…
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Congress voted $100 million for the project. Clinton, of course, signed it. Neither the Shalabi nor the Alawi groups had been able to topple Saddam, but they became recipients of millions and millions of U.S. dollars. Payments went on for a…
▶ 1:00:59
in the handling of the funds. Dang, where have I heard that before? But that's when Shalabi began feeding alarming claims of Saddam's alleged nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons to the Pentagon. So I wonder who, so the CIA was paying …
▶ 1:01:30
of a way to get rid of Saddam Hussein. The guy that's on your payroll is accusing him now of having weapons of mass destruction. The DIA got involved under the new presidency of George W. Bush. Money for Shalabi continued in spite of DIA re…
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to overthrow Saddam, they were using his information even though DIA had said it was worthless. The U.S. military flew Shalabi back to Baghdad and trained 70 of his troops as auxiliary. That number compared to plans to recruit 5,000 free Ir…
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He had twice failed already to impose himself as the mayor of Baghdad, sided with Shiite militants to reinvent his career. Linked to the Ayatollah of Iran, Shalabi would later be revealed as an Iranian spy among the mix and had been handing…
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He became a figure in the U.S. installed Iraqi provisional government. Of course, he's a spy. Other Iraqi elections, Shalabi had failed to gain any seats at all for his political party, but may yet appear in the Baghdad government, which he…
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About them using Shalabi's information. Because they all knew it wasn't real. But you're just not allowed to say that out loud. Or you'll get the ire of the guy who's going to use that fake information. Knowing it's fake. To justify an inva…