More Dirt on Chalabi By Andrew L. Jaffee, June 2, 2004	Home   Search   Forum   Terms

The New York Times today disclosed more damning evidence of Ahmad Chalabi’s felonious connections to the Iranian terror-masters. During Saddam’s rule over Iraq, Chalabi was an exile who agitated for regime change in his homeland. He had built strong ties with the U.S. over the years, and was once considered a favorite for leading the Iraqi people after their country’s liberation. That relationship has soured for obvious reasons. According to today’s Times:

Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi leader and former ally of the Bush administration, disclosed to an Iranian official that the United States had broken the secret communications code of Iran's intelligence service, betraying one of Washington's most valuable sources of information about Iran, according to United States intelligence officials. …

American officials said that about six weeks ago, Mr. Chalabi told the Baghdad station chief of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security that the United States was reading the communications traffic of the Iranian spy service, one of the most sophisticated in the Middle East.

According to American officials, the Iranian official in Baghdad, possibly not believing Mr. Chalabi's account, sent a cable to Tehran detailing his conversation with Mr. Chalabi, using the broken code. That encrypted cable, intercepted and read by the United States, tipped off American officials to the fact that Mr. Chalabi had betrayed the code-breaking operation, the American officials said.

This is scary stuff. Iran’s mullahcracy is the world’s primary sponsor of terror. Most surely they are involved in trying to destabilize Iraq. I believe Chalabi cultivated ties with the Iranian mullahs so they would support him in eventually gaining power in Iraq. Thank goodness we’ve found out what was going on. Again I say, “With friends like these, who needs enemies?”