The way I see this is that probably the bad guys (Russian organized crime and Bin Laden) are trying to infiltrate their operatives into the new structures we are trying to create.
This is not without precident. After Communism, a lot of Russian money left Russia and then went back as "western investment." Same guys, new hats.
I actually support the war in Iraq. But it is not beyond the pale that Russian criminal structures might be pro-war too, so they can make money off the war by selling weapons to the terrorists. I think that happened in Chechnya--Al Qaeda and the Russian mafia one big happy family. Communists/KGB operatives were big joiners, and I think the Russian criminals also join things to take them over, too.
Even scarier is the alleged Aziz-Tarik Handi connection.
And if Chalabi is complicit in this, that would be terrible. Especially if he is building his own army to guard/snatch the oil fields. Well, my brain is tired!
Here is Ahmed Kubba's picture.
That is the name of the man that has the American IRaqi Council in Annandale with Aziz the criminal.
http://www.homelessvoice.org/?p=article&id=20030301000005
Are they the same or different?
Sam has a beard.
It is not beyond the realm of possibility that certain more militant, anti Western factions within the Russian military-industrial complex are at the head end of arms going via Red Mafiya (e.g. in order to ensure plausible deniability) to the so called "insurgents" in Iraq. In that event, some level of SVR coordination cannot be discounted. Let us not forget the linkages between Saddam's Mukhabarat and both the SVR and FSB. Mukhabarat's most elite ops actually were known to attend training in Moscow. The more this whole odd set of data gets examined, the more it calls into question a wide range of assumptions and the more it calls upon the US to challenge the Kremlin for explanations.