New Iraqi PM a Longtime CIA Source

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Guardian snip
By MATT KELLEY

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The new Iraqi prime minister, trying to stave off attacks by anti-American militants, has a long relationship with Washington as a trusted intelligence source, former officials say.

Ayad Allawi also helped British intelligence gather information about Saddam Hussein's regime during nearly three decades in exile. Once a member of Saddam's Baath Party, Allawi later formed the Iraqi National Accord to act as a conduit for defectors from, and sources in, the former Iraqi government.

Now Allawi heads the appointed Iraqi interim government struggling to assert its authority and its independence from the United States. Allawi has taken a hard line against militants, threatening them with military action while pressing for negotiations to have anti-government militias lay down their arms.

The Iraqi prime minister has said he's proud of his contacts with Washington and other governments and claimed he worked with ``at least 15'' intelligence agencies while in exile.
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Worth reading especially for these priceless gems:

In 2002, Allawi's INA put British MI6 intelligence operatives in touch with a military officer in western Iraq who claimed chemical weapons may have been delivered to front-line units. That officer's claims helped form the basis for the now-discredited assertion by the British government that Saddam could have chemical weapons ready to use within 45 minutes.

Allawi's group also gave MI6 a letter purporting to show that Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta received training in Iraq from now-dead terrorist Abu Nidal in 2001. The FBI's timeline of Atta's movements before the attacks show no gaps which would account for such a trip, however.

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1. Allawi also extremely well known to City of London Fraud Squad

cops who submitted over 70 boxes of new evidence to the Roberto Calvi murder trial in Rome this year, which had to be halted because prosection was so gobsmacked at the weight of evidence about the P2 Lodge's activities in the late 1970s and early 1980s which had been previously gagged from any criminal invectigation - by UK secutiry/intelligence agencies.

Allawi deeply involved with P2 Lodge members from the Iranian/Pakistani Lalani family as well as US sex offenders from the Creasy family who were convicted in 1969 for child rape along with former UK-based US GIs who had been stationed at the USAF bases at High Wycombe and Naphill, Bucks.

Allawi also implicated in the fraudulent transactions concerning the establishment of Allied Arab Bank which was set up using money from UAE Ambassador Majdi Al Tajir, Nigerian convicted fraudster Chief W I Folawiyo, renegade ex-MI6 officer and Middle East expert Peter Mansfield, Turkish banker and fraud jailbird Ilhan Nebioglu. AAB took over the assets of collapsed merchant bank Edward Bates - some of whose former officers were involved with bullion launderers connected to the 1983 Brinks Matt bullion heist at Heathrow Airport.

Allawi is about as kosher as a rotting bacon sandwich.

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2. Duplicate topic

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