May 24, 2004
NEO-CON MAN?:
Billion-dollar timebomb puts Chalabi at risk (Robin Gedye, 21/05/2004, Daily Telegraph)
Ahmad Chalabi is in possession of "miles" of documents with the potential to expose politicians, corporations and the United Nations as having connived in a system of kickbacks and false pricing worth billions of pounds.That may have been enough to provoke yesterday's American raid. So explosive are the contents of the files that their publication would cause serious problems for US allies and friendly states around the globe.
Late last year and several months before Paul Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority became involved, Mr Chalabi had amassed enough information concerning corruption in the oil-for-food scandal to realise that he was sitting on explosive material.
There's something in his prospective trial for everybody. Posted by Orrin Judd at May 24, 2004 10:36 PM
I admit that I have not followed the Chalabi brohaha to date. But it seems this politico has more lives than a cat and just keeps coming back again and again. Sort of like Arafat (shudder).
Posted by: Gideon at May 25, 2004 1:01 AMUnless he is tried in the US, nothing will ever come out.
Posted by: jim hamlen at May 25, 2004 10:34 AMIf we really do have what Chalabi is purported to have had, we will soon see GW getting some international support never expected.
Posted by: Genecis at May 25, 2004 11:53 AM