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Date: August 24, 2007 7:42:59 PM PDT
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Subject: (2) CIA Plotting Military Coup in Iraq -- Keep an Eye on
Allawi & Chalabi
Pushing for a New Leader in Iraq
Former Top Bush Officials Lobby for Maliki to Be Replaced [by
Allawi]; White House Denies Any Link
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3521820&page=1
By JAKE TAPPER and AVERY MILLER
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 24, 2007 —
Robert Blackwill, left, is involved in a lobbying campaign to
support Ayad Allawi, right, as a replacement for Iraqi Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki, middle. (AP Photo)
President Bush's former envoy to Iraq, Ambassador Robert Blackwill,
is running a major behind-the-scenes lobbying push for former Iraqi
interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi who seeks to remove and replace
current Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki.
These efforts by a former national security aide are going on,
despite an official White House policy to support the current Iraqi
prime minister, with Bush adding his support for the leader this
week above the din of calls for Maliki's ouster when he said,
"Prime Minister Maliki is a good guy, a good man with a difficult
job, and I support him."
Allawi, who lived in exile for decades in London, was essentially
appointed interim prime minister by the Bush administration, though
he was defeated in the 2005 Iraqi elections.
This week, he signed a contract for $300,000 for six months' work
with the powerhouse Republican lobbying firm Barbour Griffith &
Rogers to "provide strategic counsel and representation" for Allawi
before the "U.S. government, Congress, media and others."
'Time Is Running Out for Prime Minister Maliki'
Blackwill, the firm's president, will lead the effort along with Ed
Rogers, a former top White House aide to President George H.W.
Bush. Others at the firm include a major Bush fundraiser, Lanny
Griffith, and former top Bush administration officials, such as
Philip Zelikow, a former adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice.
This week, before news of Allawi's contract with his firm broke,
Zelikow told ABC News that Maliki had lost the confidence of the
Iraqi political class.
"I think time is running out for Prime Minister Maliki to
demonstrate to other Iraqis that he's going to be able to provide
the necessary leadership in this process," Zelikow said. "I can
confidently guess that our government is quietly speculating about
a lot of different options, knowing how much concern Iraqis have
about their leadership."
Today, the White House insisted it has nothing to do with Allawi's
push for power.
"Far be it for me to judge why people sign contracts for whatever
reason," said administration spokesman Gordon Johndroe. "I'm sure
they have a desire to help out their client. But they're former
administration officials. Administration policy remains unchanged."
Allawi was, until recently, funded by the CIA; it remains a mystery
as to where Allawi is getting his money from to fund the lucrative
contract with Barbour Griffith & Rogers.
It also remains an open question in this tale of Beltway intrigue
what Allawi is getting for that money. Neither Allawi nor Barbour
Griffith & Rogers agreed to comment to ABC News.
Stephanie Smith and Jon D. Garcia contributed to this report.
Copyright © 2007 ABC News Internet Ventures
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/003971.php
Blackwill has taken a job with the lobbying firm of Barbour
Griffith & Rogers.
As you'll recall from our reporting on this matter from September
of last year, this is an excellent fit, since BG&R has spent the
last couple years making a specialty of the Iraq contracting and
logrolling racket.
Last year when President Bush's right-hand-man Joe Allbaugh
resigned as FEMA chief and wanted to get into the Iraq business, he
went to BG&R, where his wife then worked. They set Allbaugh up as
New Bridge Strategies ("your bridge to success in Iraq").
In reality, New Bridge is just the Iraqi money-chase subdivision of
BG&R.
New Bridge has four directors -- Allbaugh, John Howland, Ed Rogers
and Lanny Griffith. The latter two are Chairman and CEO of BG&R,
respectively. When Allbaugh put out the New Bridge shingle, it
happened to be at the same address at BG&R, etc., etc.
If you go down the list of principals at New Bridge you'll find
most of them work at BG&R.
Admittedly, not all of them: Jamal Daniel is Neil Bush's business
partner.
I'm sure Blackwill will be in good hands.
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http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003990.php
[Allawi] may not need the [CIA]’s cash. One member of his coterie
is suspected of participating in what an Iraqi public-corruption
judge calls “possibly the largest robbery in the world” — the theft
of approximately $1 billion from the Iraqi treasury.
In mid-2004, Hazem Shaalan had it all: he had risen from being a
small businessman in London before the war to becoming Ayad
Allawi’s defense minister. (Shaalan had been a member of Ahmed
Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress, but the relationship between
Shaalan and Chalabi became acrimonious, with the INC accusing
Shaalan of being a Baathist spy.) The defense ministry was Allawi’s
single biggest priority, as he owed his appointment — made jointly
by the U.S. and the United Nations — to his promise of restoring
stability to the insurgency-wracked country. Shaalan came through
for him, fully backing the joint U.S.-Allawi decision to fight the
Mahdi Army in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in August 2004.
But that wasn’t all Shaalan did at the defense ministry.
Shortly after the January 2005 elections left Allawi and Shaalan
out of power, a wide-ranging audit of the defense ministry found
nearly $1 billion missing. Iraq’s finance minister, Ali Allawi —
Allawi’s cousin — discovered that Shaalan had taken practically the
entire defense procurement budget from Iraq’s Central Bank and had
little to show for it aside from obsolete Polish and Pakistani
weaponry. A “charitable” accounting found that perhaps $200 million
worth of usable equipment for the Iraqi Army resulted from the $1.3
billion fund.
What happened to the rest of the fund and other missing defense-
ministry cash remains a mystery.
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http://www.coastalpost.com/05/04/20.htm
As Scott Ritter, former Iraqi weapons inspector, and presently
columnist for Al Jazeera reported (Newsmax.com 9 March 2005)
"January's historic election "was fixed" as the election results
were changed using a "secret recount" held three days after the
vote." Ritter explained that with Shiites getting 60% of the vote,
their party would control the National Assembly without having to
form a coalition.
Accordingly, "suddenly there's a government-ordered lockdown of the
votes, while there is a secret recount-not a public recount-where
American troops were escorting ballot boxes into undisclosed
locations to be recounted by (interim Prime Minister) Alllawi's
government."
Ritter noted: "The secret recount dramatically changed the
political landscape, with the Shia vote dropping to 48% and
Allawi's government <suddenly> picking up nearly 10 points of
support."
"You don't want to cook it so that no one will believe it "You cook
it so that the Shia cannot have a majority in the National
Assembly, so that there will not be a democratically-elected
theocracy."
Iyad Allawi, Iraq's prime minister, a Shiite, whose position in the
new Iraqi government is uncertain, has been generally recognized by
the Iraqi people as a puppet for both the US and Britain.
Columnist Fred Lingel in his article ( American Free Press 5 July,
2004) points out that this 59 year old physician (neurologist) "is
credited, like his disgraced relative, Ahmed Chalabu, with
providing the United States with bogus information about weapons of
mass destruction.
Lingel points out: "Allawi was not the UN's preferred choice," but
that Iraq's UN envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, "had to accept him after the
US-appointed Governing Council came under pressure from Ambassador
Robert Blackwell, Condoleezza Rice's man in Baghdad, and CPA
leader, Paul Bremer."
In 1971 Allawi went to London to complete his medical studies, and
was accused by some of "spying for the Iraqi secret police." He
broke with the Baath Party for reasons unknown and assassins were
sent to London to kill him. "He was beaten with knives and axes and
spent a year in the hospital recuperating." "
Allawi set up his own dissident organization, The Iraqi National
Accord, and built close ties with the British Foreign Intelligence
Service, M16. In 1992 Allawi transferred his allegiance to the CIA
and got funding from them: "As a member of Iraq's Governing Council
Allawi had the task of building a new secret police force."
Thus Bush who preaches "democracy" has been employing the same
crooked tactics in Iraq that gave our President a majority in the
Florida election.
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