New Iraqi Prime Minister Longtime, Trusted Source for CIA, MI6

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Iraq's tough-talking new prime minister was one of U.S. and British intelligence agencies' most trusted sources for information about Saddam Hussein's government, former officials say.

The Iraqi prime minister has said he's proud of his contacts with Washington and other governments and claimed he worked with "at least 15" different intelligence agencies during his years in exile.
"We do not feel ashamed of being in touch ... to get rid of the evil regime of Saddam," Allawi said in June.
The spy agency trusted Allawi because he had better sources in Baghdad than other prominent exiles like Chalabi, said Judith Yaphe, a CIA Middle East analyst during the first half of the 1990s.

"Over the years, Allawi's contacts were proven to be real, while Chalabi's were never what Chalabi told us," said Yaphe, now a fellow at the Pentagon's National Defense University. "I have a feeling that, even if he may have been passing information that turned out to be wrong, he seems to have been fed better stuff."
Some of Allawi's information did turn out to be spectacularly wrong.
In 2002, his Iraqi National Accord put British MI6 intelligence operatives in touch with a military officer in western Iraq who said chemical weapons may have been delivered to front-line units. That officer's claims helped form the basis for the now-discredited assertion by the British government that Saddam could have chemical weapons ready to use within 45 minutes. Allawi's group also gave MI6 a letter purporting to show that Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta received training in Iraq from now-dead terrorist Abu Nidal in 2001. The FBI's timeline of Atta's movements before the attacks show no gaps that would account for such a trip.
Chalabi and Allawi are cousins by marriage and, according to a Chalabi spokesman, went to primary school together. They have been longtime rivals, however, clashing over the best way to overthrow Saddam. Allawi favored a coup by disaffected Iraqi military officers, while Chalabi proposed a popular revolt. Separate attempts to do both failed


Allawi's group helped foment a coup attempt against Saddam in 1996, but Iraqi agents discovered the plot and dozens of alleged plotters were arrested and killed. The prime minister's critics say that showed Allawi was untrustworthy. "Allawi's one chance for glory, the coup in 1996, failed miserably," said retired CIA agent Warren Marik, who worked in Iraq. "He'd long claimed close ties with the Iraqi army, but the coup failed and no one marched on Baghdad." Despite their long-standing relationship, U.S. and British agencies won't be pulling the strings now that Allawi is in power, Mack and CIA analyst Yaphe said.


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBHL368SYD.html

[Nambe]

1. This is his second coup' attempt and things aren't going well.

He'll probably wind up in Florida at jeb's mansion.

[DulceDecorum]

2. Allawi is a British citizen

Call me what you will,
but I really sincerely believe that those who hold high office in a nation should have ONLY ONE CITIZENSHIP and it should be ONLY of the nation that they are governing.

http://www.rense.com/general42/rove.htm

[emad]

3. Allawi also extremely well known to City of London Fraud Squad

cops who submitted over 70 boxes of new evidence to the Roberto Calvi murder trial in Rome this year, which had to be halted because prosection was so gobsmacked at the weight of evidence about the P2 Lodge's activities in the late 1970s and early 1980s which had been previously gagged from any criminal invectigation - by UK secutiry/intelligence agencies.

Allawi deeply involved with P2 Lodge members from the Iranian/Pakistani Lalani family as well as US sex offenders from the Creasy family who were convicted in 1969 for child rape along with former UK-based US GIs who had been stationed at the USAF bases at High Wycombe and Naphill, Bucks.

Allawi also implicated in the fraudulent transactions concerning the establishment of Allied Arab Bank which was set up using money from UAE Ambassador Majdi Al Tajir, Nigerian convicted fraudster Chief W I Folawiyo, renegade ex-MI6 officer and Middle East expert Peter Mansfield, Turkish banker and fraud jailbird Ilhan Nebioglu. AAB took over the assets of collapsed merchant bank Edward Bates - some of whose former officers were involved with bullion launderers connected to the 1983 Brinks Matt bullion heist at Heathrow Airport.

Allawi is about as kosher as a rotting bacon sandwich.

[emad]

4. Allawi credibility:

"In 2002, Allawi's INA put British MI6 intelligence operatives in touch with a military officer in western Iraq who claimed chemical weapons may have been delivered to front-line units. That officer's claims helped form the basis for the now-discredited assertion by the British government that Saddam could have chemical weapons ready to use within 45 minutes.

Allawi's group also gave MI6 a letter purporting to show that Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta received training in Iraq from now-dead terrorist Abu Nidal in 2001. The FBI's timeline of Atta's movements before the attacks show no gaps which would account for such a trip, however."

[OKNancy]

5. Kick

[merh]

6. Gee what a shock, boy howdy, I am so surprised by this

revelation! (NOT)