Aziz's organization is called the American Iraqi Council.
I drove over to their building yesterday because it is near my house. It is a dumpy brick midrise office building near a check cashing place and palm reading. A sort of cheesy street with dubious businesses. I didn't see the organization listed out front with other listings, but maybe they don't list. Trust me; this is not the office of Bush operatives. I know one person in the building, a lawyer. I think he does criminal law, but I don't know.
The address is 7263 Maple Place Suite 210 Annandale VA.
For you folks in N. Virginia, Maple Place is Backlick Road on the other side of Columbia Pike.
Here is the link for the organization that Aziz Al-Taee,
( one of his many names) the criminal who partnered with Berg, belonged to. He is listed second, so I wonder if this organization was really a criminal front posing as an emigre organization.
http://www.al-iraq.org/aic.htm
I think that this Aziz may have been involved in running drugs or weapons or both. He had ties in Philadelphia to the Russian organized crime.
The CIA does not exploit unwitting goofy kids and put them in dangerous situations. There are plenty of smart military types that can be spies.
This looks like some drug or weapons thing to me. Berg would be able to go anywhere because of his American passport. He could have been a useful go-between for Russian mafia and Iraq. I would take what Aziz says about Berg's activities with skepticism because he may be trying to blow smoke in our eyes. Who knows if Berg was writing his own e-mails.
The Russian tycoons are very into communications infrastructure. They need somewhere to put the money, and the media companies provide them with political influence.
Did anyone notice that the Russians said that none of their oil people were around during the terrorist attack at Khobar yesterday? Russians in the ME may have regular jobs and also belong to mafia structures. This would be weapons and drugs.
I have no inside information about this, but I have a background in Soviet Studies and have done research on drugs and weapons trafficking from time to time.
I think the young Berg was involved with a Russian mafia network. I don't think it was the CIA. I suppose the CIA might try to infiltrate the Russian criminal structures to get to Al Qaeda operatives, bu whould they use a Berg? He was a drifty kid who got in trouble for being a vagrant and who went from school to school never finishing anything.
The Russian mafia have armed people in the ME and in Chechnya. Where do you think terrorists get all the Russian weapons?
They basically infiltrated and took over the official weapons-selling businesses in the former USSR such as Rosvoruzheniye.
For more information, check out Turbiville Mafia in Uniform" on the internet. http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/fmsopubs/issues/mafia.htm
Sorry about the double post. I am new to this and didn't see that my post went onto the next page. I thought it hadn't worked.