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Iyad Allawi to Be Iraqi PM - Allawi Aide
Reuters ^ | Fri, May 28, 2004 | Reuters

Posted on 05/28/2004 5:57:55 AM PDT by Eurotwit

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To: InterceptPoint

See Link above.


21 posted on 05/28/2004 4:57:41 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Eurotwit

Gotta love that first line ....

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/10/23/sprj.irq.main/

MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A top Iraqi official attending an international conference on raising funds to rebuild Iraq warned Thursday that France and Germany's limited donations would not be forgotten.

Ayad Allawi, the current head of Iraq's U.S.-appointed governing council, said he hoped German and French officials would reconsider their decision not to boost their contributions beyond funds already pledged through the European Union.

"As far as Germany and France are concerned, really, this was a regrettable position they had," Allawi said. "I don't think the Iraqis are going to forget easily that in the hour of need, those countries wanted to neglect Iraq."

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan -- also attending the conference -- urged the international community to give billions of dollars to rebuild the nation, saying reconstruction cannot wait until a sovereign Iraqi government is established.

"The people of Iraq have a hard road ahead of them, filled with both risk and opportunity," Annan said at the opening of the donors' conference for Iraq in Madrid, Spain. "Let us not leave them to travel that road alone." (Full story; Facts: Iraq's needs and donors)

Some countries have balked at funding programs in post-war Iraq, citing the go-it-alone approach taken by the United States and Britain ahead of the conflict.

Germany, France and Russia -- the chief opponents of war before the U.S. invasion -- sent lower level officials to the conference. Those countries have been opposed to what they see as too much U.S. control of the reconstruction process.

The United States has committed $20 billion to the effort. Spanish Economy Minister Rodrigo Rato said last Friday he hoped $15 billion to $20 billion would be raised, but Foreign Minister Ana Palacio told CNN last week that as little as $6 billion could be raised for a trust fund that the World Bank, United Nations and Iraqi authorities would manage.


22 posted on 05/28/2004 5:00:27 PM PDT by snooker (John Flipping Kerry, the enemy's choice in Vietnam, the enemy's choice in Iraq.)
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I am encouraged by this development.


23 posted on 05/28/2004 5:05:42 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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Yes, the media's dismissive 'CIA connection' was a way for this distinguished long-term exile and anti-saddam leader to get dissed.

Actually Allawi and his INA organization was close to CIA, in particular allied with CIA in a failed 1996 coup attempt. But he is far more about being an opponent of Saddam Hussein than anything else.


24 posted on 05/28/2004 7:04:20 PM PDT by WOSG (Peace through Victory! Iraq victory, W victory, American victory!)
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General Adnan Nuri, a leader of Allawi's INA helped convince the Clinton admin to abort support of a 1995 coup attempt Chalabi had organized with the Kurds. This operation also included the cooperation of Iran, which Chalabi had arranged at the behest of the CIA.

"On the eve of the March 1995 offensive, Nuri flew to Washington and told the White House that the INC had tricked the CIA and was preparing to draw the United States into a new war with Iraq—something he knew the Clinton administration would avoid at all costs."

"By that time, President Clinton was already favoring the Accord members predictions regarding the possibility of sparking a coup and turning cold to the potential complications of a popular insurrection in Iraq. By the summer of 1995, Washington’s efforts concentrated on working with King Hussein of Jordan and the Accord’s new offices in Amman."

A year later Chalabi tried to warn the CIA that Allawi's group was infiltrated and the their plans for another coup attempt was compromised.

Chalabi was so convinced that the military-coup plan had been compromised that he traveled to Washington in March 1996 to see the new CIA director, John Deutch, and his deputy, George Tenet. He told them the Iraqis had captured an Egyptian courier who was carrying an Inmarsat satellite phone to Shawani's sons in Baghdad.

When the CIA officials seemed unconvinced, Chalabi went to his friend Richard Perle, a prominent neoconservative. Perle is said to have called Tenet and urged that an outside committee review the Iraq situation. But the coup planning went ahead.

DBACHILLES collapsed in a blood bath in June 1996. The Post had run a front-page story on June 23 describing Alawi's role in "the latest CIA-backed plan" that was based on "contacts at high levels of the Iraqi military."

The Iraqis are said to have begun arresting the coup plotters three days later, on June 26. At least 200 officers were seized and more than 80 were executed, including Shawani's sons. Top CIA officials blamed Chalabi for exposing the plot, and the recrimination has persisted ever since.

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25 posted on 05/29/2004 12:10:31 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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