Reply #21: Thank you, scarletwoman, for resurrecting this important thread!

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Bingo! Yes, Chalabi fits the bill. That was very good thinking on the part of nolabels. So, now we know that whatever other terrorists there may be in the world, SOME of the terrorists are ours. (Not that we at DU are all that surprised.)

Did anyone else read the thread about the article at CounterPunch by Francis Boyle (?I think), about hating his alma mater, U Chicago? Along with Strauss, Wolfowitz, et al., Chalabi got his PhD there too. He's not just a tool--he's part of the gang.

And this stuff about his links to the Shah--whoa! This is getting into truth-is-stranger-than-fiction territory.

There's another thread out there linking to an article by a guy recently retired from the U of Houston, who's done some work linking some of the organizations and people who have hijacked US foreign policy. His name is Laurence A Toenjes. The article is titled: "U.S. Policy Towards Iraq; Unraveling the Web of People and Organizations." Besides PNAC and some other think tanks, there is the CLI, which I think Chalabi is connected to (?)--in addition to the INC (or whatever his own gang is called).

<<This clique consisted of The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI), The Center for Security Policy (CSP), The Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee (DPB), and The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). Based upon mission statements and observed actions, the members of the clique appeared to play somewhat specialized and mutually supporting roles in the policy process. For example, PNAC was instrumental in preparing the over-all plan (Rebuilding America’s
Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century), while
the presence of JINSA helped insure the interests of Israel as well as of the United States. The CLI was set up in the fall of 2002, reportedly at the behest of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, to “engage in educational and advocacy efforts to mobilize US and international support for policies aimed at ending the aggression of
Saddam Hussein and freeing the Iraqi people from tyranny.” That is,
the purpose of the CLI was to sell the war abroad as well as to US
citizens. The CSP prided itself in expertise and facilities to
efficiently disseminate a flood of position papers and press
releases to Congress, the Administration, and the public at large.
The DPB provided a direct link into the bowels of the Pentagon, with
its members having access to classified information and the
opportunity to make private presentations to the upper echelons of
the Department of Defense.>>

You can find the whole article at http://www.opednews.com/toenjessummary.htm

You have to download the Word doc, and it warns you that it takes a long time on dial-up, but it only took me about a minute, so don't be discouraged if you don't have broadband. I'll come back with a link to the DU thread on it later, if I can find it.

For more names of other probably sleazy Iraqis the neo-cons are in bed with (many of whom I'd never heard of), be sure to read the Wash Post article from today by Pincus and ?--very long and lots of detail. Today was a good, rich news/analysis day.