Transcript: Ahmad Chalabi on Fox News Sunday (inc. talking about Saddam recruiting US citizens)

FoxNews ^ | Aprile 27, 2003 | FoxNews

[FairOpinion]

Following is a transcribed excerpt from Fox News Sunday, April 27, 2003.

SNOW: Mr. Chalabi, last week you told me you believed that Saddam Hussein is still alive and somewhere in Iraq. Do you still believe that's the case?

CHALABI: Yes, I do.

[FairOpinion]

Wait until names will start to be released. I am just listening to the replay of this interview on FoxNews right now. He also said evidence of how Saddam influenced FOREIGN LEADERS.

Does Clinton, not to mention Chirac come to mind, not to mention some US Dems in Congress?

[xJones]

I wish he'd been asked why, if the Iraqi people are so grateful, THEY don't stop the stone-throwers.

[ex-snook]

And I'm sure he operated the schools that trained the pilots. Also since his WMD were all buried somewhere, he had to use our planes. Get real, Saddam was a stupid jerk and not some kind of military superplanner.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting this!

Galloways in the USA possible!

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[blam]

Just saw Bill Kristol say that Galloway was the 'tip of the iceberg.'

[Young Werther]

Personal Ad. To any and all despots, (Saddam are you listening?). We will be willing to support your cause! We are open to pecuniary persuasion. Please send 5 of those shiny boxes to Jim Robinson at Freerepublic.com and we will wave your banner on high. We are a notorious front organization and would even consider employing Baghdad Bob as a favor to you.

This is the fine print and you can ignore it! You boob all we want is your money. Yes we lied but you should be used to that! Have a nice day 'cause you've been freeped!

[FairOpinion]

"Galloways in the USA possible! "

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Not only possible, but likely.

Bill Kristal intimated as such, referring to some inte, on which he may have been given a heads up. He said that Galloway is just the tip of the iceberg.

Stay tuned.

Did you notice how quiet some Democrats have been lately?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Yes, however we do have this:

Senator wants to know if alleged spy funneled money to campaigns (Leiberman)(China)

Not sure why Lieberman is doing this, must help him somehow!

[TexKat]

The Jordan Times

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

'We should be very careful with this man. I think he's partly the solution and a significant part of the problem. He's not trusted in Iraq, and yet he's part of the government,' Representative Christopher Shays told the `Fox News Sunday' programme

US lawmakers worry about Chalabi in new gov't

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi on Sunday sought to defuse reports that he would be sidelined in the interim government due to take political power in Iraq from June 30, amid mounting concerns in Washington about the long-time US ally.

"We should be very careful with this man. I think he's partly the solution and a significant part of the problem. He's not trusted in Iraq, and yet he's part of the government," Representative Christopher Shays told the "Fox News Sunday" programme.

Senator Richard Lugar echoed that concern, saying in retrospect the United States probably should not have given Chalabi responsibility for dismantling the Iraqi army.

"Now, of course, we come to the point in which Ambassador Brahimi, in trying to name the people, the 29 people for the new government, is pointedly pointing toward the fact that Chalabi will not be one of them," Lugar told CNN. The top UN envoy to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi, last week laid out his proposals for a caretaker Iraqi government to be set up before June 30.

Brahimi told ABC television that not all the members of the Iraqi Governing Council should serve in the new government, and that the people in the interim government should not play a part in politics after the country's first elections.

"My personal view at this moment is that people who have political parties and are leaders of their parties should get really to win the election," Brahimi said.

The UN envoy has stressed that Iraq would have a truly representative government only after elections scheduled for next January, which he has described as the most important milestone in post-war Iraq.

Chalabi has been a key US ally in post-Saddam Iraq with longtime ties in Washington, but has recently been viewed more sceptically after claims that his Iraqi National Congress fed false information to the US government and media.

He has also been convicted in absentia by a Jordanian court of fraud and embezzling $288 million from Petra Bank into Swiss bank accounts, but he insists his conviction was part of a plot by Saddam Hussein's fallen regime.

Chalabi said Sunday that neither US nor UN officials have told him whether he will be in the new government and he dismissed Brahimi as an outsider who could not bring together Iraq's rival politicians.

"He is a controversial figure. He's not a unifying figure," Chalabi told "Fox News Sunday."

"He is supposed to be a unifying figure to choose a government that will be effective." "I hope that he will work out a way to respond to the wishes of the Iraqi people with what they think they should have and I believe that he should be more sensitive to the realities of Iraq," he said.

The Washington Post reported Saturday that the United States and Brahimi have decided to sideline most of the Iraqi politicians Washington has relied on during the last year.

Chalabi is likely to be foremost among the politicians Washington wants to sideline, the paper reported. He has increasingly alienated his former backers in the US government, prompting US officials to consider cutting off long-running financial support for Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, it added.