Our new hand picked Iraqi government. Criminals, terrorists, & communists?

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA3ES2F3ID.html

Thumbnail sketches of members of Iraq's newly named 25-member Governing Council:
- AHMAD CHALABI: A Shiite and leader of the London-based anti-Saddam Iraqi National Congress. Chalabi, a 58-year-old former banker who left Iraq as a teenager, had been touted in some U.S. government circles as a future Iraqi leader - though he denies he has any ambitions to lead the country. He also has many critics who are opposed to anyone ruling Iraq after spending so many years abroad. Chalabi was convicted in absentia of fraud in a banking scandal in Jordan in 1989 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. His group is an umbrella organization for a number of disparate groups, including Kurds and Shiites.

His bio speaks for itself

ABDEL-AZIZ AL-HAKIM: A Shiite and a leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. SCIRI, long based in neighboring Iran, opposes a U.S. administration in the country but has close ties with the other U.S.-backed groups that opposed Saddam, including the Kurds and Chalabi's INC.

http://www.iht.com/articles/93507.html

WASHINGTON Without public announcement, American forces have bombed the principal bases of the main armed Iranian opposition group in Iraq, which has maintained several thousand fighters with tanks and artillery along Iraq's border with Iran for more than a decade.
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The group, Mujahidin Khalq, has been labeled a terrorist organization by the United States since 1997. But the biggest beneficiary of the strikes will be the Iranian government, which has lost scores of soldiers in recent years to cross-border attacks by the guerrillas, who have sought to overthrow Iran's clerical regime.
In its most recent annual listing of terrorist groups, the State Department said of the group that "its history is studded with anti-Western attacks as well as terrorist attacks on the interests of the clerical regime in Iran and abroad."
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During the 1970s, the report noted, Mujahidin Khalq killed several American military personnel and American civilians working on defense projects in Tehran, the Iranian capital.

The group, Mujahidin Khalq, has been labeled a terrorist organization by the United States since 1997. But the biggest beneficiary of the strikes will be the Iranian government, which has lost scores of soldiers in recent years to cross-border attacks by the guerrillas, who have sought to overthrow Iran's clerical regime.

HAMID MAJID MOUSSA: A Shiite and secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party since 1993. He is an economist and petroleum researcher. He left Iraq in 1978 and returned in 1983 to continue his political activities against the Saddam regime.

Bio speaks for itself

HAMID MAJID MOUSSA: A Shiite and secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party since 1993. He is an economist and petroleum researcher. He left Iraq in 1978 and returned in 1983 to continue his political activities against the Saddam regime.

Bio speaks for itself.

I discovered this with ten minutes of research. I would imagine a bit more research and we would find everything from thiefs to child molestors on this list?

Don

[AbbPoacher]

1. Bought and prepaid

http://www.ips-dc.org/iraq/primer4.htm#36 Since the Gulf War of 1991, the U.S. has supported and funded a small number of the more than 70 opposition groups that have functioned outside of Iraq. In the first years, the CIA provided most of its millions of dollars to two groups, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), led by the London-based fugitive banker Ahmad Chalabi (wanted in Jordan for embezzling $60 million from Petra Bank), and the Iraq National Accord (INA) made up largely of former military officers. In 1998, Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Act, which authorized $97 million to support the opposition. The INC and INA, along with the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (headquartered in Tehran), the Movement for Constitutional Monarchy (led by Sharif Hussein, a member of Iraq's old royal family), the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and two smaller parties were chosen in 1999 as recipients of U.S. financial backing. The Supreme Council, representing many Shi'a in southern Iraq and backed by Iran, immediately rejected U.S. funding. Only three of the groups, the two Kurdish parties in the North and the Supreme Council in the South, have any presence inside Iraq.