Iraq congress members under investigation

[Ilsa]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4855109/

Iraq congress members under investigation
Allegations include abduction, robbery, assault, car theft

By Lisa Myers
Senior investigative correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:39 p.m. ET April 28, 2004

Members of the Iraqi National Congress and its leader Ahmed Chalabi were airlifted into southern Iraq the day Saddam’s government fell. Chalabi was President Bush’s guest at the State of the Union address. Even today, the INC gets $340,000 a month from the Pentagon to feed the United States intelligence information.

But NBC News has learned that members of the group are now under investigation by Iraqi police in Baghdad — allegations of:

abduction
robbery
stealing 11 Iraqi government vehicles
assaulting police by firing on them during a search.

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Iraqi authorities tell NBC that four INC operatives are under arrest, and an arrest warrant has been issued for the INC’s chief of intelligence.

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All this comes in the wake of findings that key intelligence on weapons of mass destruction provided by Chalabi’s group was false, perhaps even fabricated.

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[Nlighten1]

1. Thugs of a feather...

[justjones]

5. Skull & Bones Thugs in Harmony...

[Nlighten1]

9. LOL!

[madmax]

2. Who's not surprised?

Aren't these the guys hand picked by this administration.

[Caution]

3. hehehe now THIS is simply BEAUTIFUL

[DarkPhenyx]

4. Thread title is misleading.

Chalabi isn't under investigation for any of the cromes listed. Also, dosen't the thread title in LBN have to be the headline from the article sited?

[Ilsa]

6. You're right. I had heard the NBC report,

and i thought I heard that Chalabi was under investigation also.

(Had to scrub to get into line with the rules. Thanks for helping me out.)

[DarkPhenyx]

8. No problem.

Hope I didn't come across as an ass, but the Mods will lock/delete a thread pretty quickly in LBN. Which they should. :wave: *smiling at the nice Mods*

[DUreader]

7. Careful...jump to conclusions...titles and text have beenscrubbed before

otherwise everything you say is true

[Cocoa]

10. Chalabi's men went on a crime spree when they got to Iraq

they stole a house, and there was a weird story about some of Chalabi's army accidentally being killed by U.S. troops. They were breaking into a bank, and our troops didn't get the word that they were allowed to loot at will.

[maddezmom]

11. Chalabi needs to go for many reasons nt