A curious offshoot of the raging scandal around Ahmed “The greatest Arab since Mohammed” Chalabi and his exposure as an Iranian spy has been pointed up by Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo. As the far more important questions build up, a small British angle has emerged with a story in the Daily Telegraph about…
Read More The Torygraph, Chalabi and GallowayI don’t think this story has been covered much in the UK, which is a great pity as not only is it good, it is also a fine piece of Ealingesque British farce. Imagine. The former director of the CIA, James Woolsey, snooping around a college in Swansea trying to prove that one of its…
Read More The CIA, the Swansea police and the neo-conservativesApparently some people in Washington, DC call their favourite Iraqi, Ahmed Chalabi, “the greatest Arab since Mohammed”. (Link via Talking Points Memo) Mind you, it’s not a front that is going to last, as apparently the Pentagon is going to cut off the old fraud’s monthly $340,000 subsidy. I wonder if they will also take…
Read More Chalabi to be ditched?Does anyone remember something called the Iraq Communications Group? It was the team of spindoctors and spooks chaired by Alastair Campbell in the run-up to the war with Iraq that – depending on who you believe – either did or didn’t sex up the dossiers. After all, Ali C stated to the Foreign Affairs Committee…
Read More The Iraq Communications Group, Valerie Plame and something called WHIG