Is this what Chalabi told Iran?

[Career Prole]

An Iraqi source close to the Basra Governor’s Office told the MNA that new information shows that a large part of the WMD, which was secretly brought to southern and western Iraq over the past month, are in containers falsely labeled as containers of the Maeresk shipping company and some consignments bearing the labels of organizations such as the Red Cross or the USAID in order to disguise them as relief shipments.

The Iraqi source also confirmed the report about suspicious trucks with fake Saudi and Jordanian license plates entering Iraq at night last week, stressing that the Saudi and Jordanian border guards did not attempt to inspect the trucks but simply delivered them to the U.S. and British forces stationed on Iraq’s borders.
http://www.mehrnews.com/wfNewsDetails_en.aspx?NewsID=70071&t=Political

Did Chalabi leak the October surprise?

[seemslikeadream]

1. Check your link

n/t

[FreakinDJ]

2. link works for me

[Career Prole]

3. I just did...it worked for me.

I'll c&p it again here:
http://www.mehrnews.com/wfNewsDetails_en.aspx?NewsID=70071&t=Political
but it seems the same to me. They both go to the article I quoted. :shrug:

[seemslikeadream]

5. Odd it still does not work for me

I get this

http://help.internet-optimizer.com/?js=1&e=ERRDNS&u=http%3A//www.mehrnews.com/wfNewsDetails_en.aspx%3FNewsID%3D70071%26t%3DPolitical&cls=wsi8&rid=r01

[Career Prole]

6. I just PM'ed you the article.

I don't know why the link doesn't work for you, but at least now you can read the story! :)

[seemslikeadream]

8. Thanks

from your link

The source added that some provocative actions such as the closure of Al-Hawza periodical by U.S. administrator Paul Bremer, the secret meetings between his envoys with some extremist groups who have no relations with the Iraqi Governing Council, the sudden upsurge in violence in central and southern Iraq, a number of activities which have stoked up the wrath of the prominent Shia clerics, and finally, the spate of kidnappings and the baseless charges against the Iranian charge d’affaires in Baghdad are providing the necessary smokescreen for the transportation of the WMD to their intended locations.

He said they are quite aware that the White House in cooperation with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has directly tasked the Defense Department to hide these weapons. Given the recent scandals to the effect that the U.S. president was privy to the 9/11 plot, they might try to immediately announce the discovery of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in order to overshadow the scandals and prevent a further decline of Bush’s public opinion rating as the election approaches.

[Gman]

4. Very interesting

[bear425]

7. site must be down

because I get page cannot be displayed error.

[Career Prole]

9. I pm'ed it to you too...

Check your inbox!
Welcome to DU! :hi:

[napi21]

10. Here's a different site and link, same story

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0313-08.htm

I couldn't get the other one to work either, but found this one.

[troublemaker]

11. If there was a syllable of truth to this stuff

we would have 'found' WMD long ago. They have no use as an "October suprise" because the political damage done waiting for October is greater than any bounce from their eventual discovery.

[maggrwaggr]

13. I disagree

they desperately need justification for being in Iraq. Right now there is none.

If they found some really nasty fucking WMDs there, they could at least point to them and say "see?"

And a lot of people would believe them.

[Career Prole]

18. "And a lot of people would believe them."

Oh hell yes. They find one rusty old shell from the batch Reagan sold 'em and trumpets blared and hearts were light all over freeperland as if it was the holy freakin' grail they'd found.
I can't think of anything I dislike worse than light freephearts.
I'd rather see happy Yankee fans. ;)

[bear425]

12. Thanks for the PM

Interesting article. I, too, believe that any "October surprise" like that would be mighty transparent, at least to the thinking population. Uh oh.....

[maggrwaggr]

14. yes, but they are desperate

so they might figure they have nothing to lose.

Bushco with nothing to lose is a scary notion.

[CityZen-X]

15. Thinking Population?

Here in America, get out of here! Maybe on the extreme edges of the nation. But the multitudes thrive off of corn fed Bu$h*t!

[Career Prole]

19. They rely heavily on the unquestioning loyalty of their base. That makes

me say "uh-oh" fairly often.

[xultar]

This makes me effin laugh! OMFG, so those stories in the Terhan times

probably got him busted!!

[xultar]

16. oops! n/t

[j1607760]

17. Has Iran been manipulating the White House from Day One

Chalabi might have been a sleeper agent for Iran (say, aren't they part of the axis -or is it "Dynamic Duo" now?- of Evil?) or maybe he had information embarrassing to the administration, who knows? As far as I'm concerned Chalabi's been playing Bush like a puppet on strings from day one. Then again, outsmarting Dubya is hardly rocket science.

[Career Prole]

20. It struck me as a symbiotic relationship between Chalabi and the neocons

from the start. They wanted Iraq and he wanted to be in charge of Iraq, so he supplied the lies and they lent them credibility. It'd be funnier than hell if he had one more card up his sleeve the whole time and used their own blind greed to stick it to 'em. It hurts bush* for one thing, and because neocons consider themselves to be the philosopher kings Plato mentioned to see them played for fools is pretty deee-licious. :D