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Titolo: Iraq, Newsweek: Ahmad Chalabi spia di Teheran

Washington, 20:57
Iraq, Newsweek: Ahmad Chalabi spia di Teheran
Il leader del partito Congresso nazionale iracheno (Inc) Ahmad Chalabi, , ex
dissidente iracheno preferito dal Pentagono, sarebbe una spia di Teheran,
secondo fonti dell'intelligence Usa citate dal giornale Newsweek.
Le fonti del settimanale, rimaste anonime, affermano che Chalabi ha fornito
ai leader iraniani informazioni riservate sui progetti politici per l'Iraq
dell'Amministrazione Bush e dettagli sulle operazioni militari.
Una fonte ha detto che le informazioni che Chalabi ha dato agli iraniani
erano in grado di "mettere in pericolo la vita di alcune persone".
http://www.repubblica.it/news/ired/ultimora/rep_nazionale_n_686102.html
Intelligence: A Double Game
Has Chalabi given 'sensitive' information on U.S. interests to Iran? He
denies it, but the White House is wary
By Mark Hosenball
NewsweekMay 10 issue - Ahmad Chalabi, the longtime Pentagon favorite to
become leader of a free Iraq, has never made a secret of his close ties to
Iran. Before the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress
maintained a $36,000-a-month branch office in Tehran—funded by U.S.
taxpayers. INC representatives, including Chalabi himself, paid regular
visits to the Iranian capital. Since the war, Chalabi's contacts with Iran
may have intensified: a Chalabi aide says that since December, he has met
with most of Iran's top leaders, including supreme religious leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his top national-security aide, Hassan Rowhani.
"Iran is Iraq's neighbor, and it is in Iraq's interest to have a good
relationship with Iran," Chalabi's aide says.
But U.S. intelligence agencies have recently raised concerns that Chalabi
has become too close to Iran's theocratic rulers. NEWSWEEK has learned that
top Bush administration officials have been briefed on intelligence
indicating that Chalabi and some of his top aides have supplied Iran with
"sensitive" information on the American occupation in Iraq. U.S. officials
say that electronic intercepts of discussions between Iranian leaders
indicate that Chalabi and his entourage told Iranian contacts about American
political plans in Iraq. There are also indications that Chalabi has
provided details of U.S. security operations. According to one U.S.
government source, some of the information Chalabi turned over to Iran could
"get people killed." (A Chalabi aide calls the allegations "absolutely
false.")
Why would Chalabi risk his cozy ties to Washington by cuddling up to Iran's
fundamentalist rulers? Administration officials say Chalabi may be working
both sides in an effort to solidify his own power and block the advancement
of rival Iraqis. A U.S. official familiar with information presented to
policymakers said that White House advisers were concerned that Chalabi was
"playing footsie" with the Iranians. Yet Chalabi still has loyal defenders
among some neoconservatives in the Pentagon. They say Chalabi has provided
information that saved American lives. "Rushing to judgment and cutting off
this relationship could have unintended consequences," says one Pentagon
official, who did not respond to questions about Chalabi's dealings with
Tehran. Each month the Pentagon still pays his group a $340,000 stipend,
drawn from secret intelligence funds, for "information collection."
Still, the State Department and the CIA are using the intelligence about his
Iran ties to persuade the president to cut him loose once and for all.
Officials say that even some of Chalabi's old allies in Washington now see
him as a liability. If Chalabi's support in the administration was once an
iceberg, says one Bush aide, "it's now an ice cube."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4881157/

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