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, ..' sup;osed'to have beeQresided over by the ostensiQpro-Western Chalabi,
t4e neocons' Alger Hiss. That was the pl~Jl, at any rate, but something
seems to have gone awry....
As in the Abu Ghraib photo-gallery of horrors, the nature of the crime
suggests that a few lowly spear carriers -Rubin is just barely out of knee
pants, and Rhode was certainly not in the loop on super-sensitive
intelligence - didn't pull this off all on their own. Before it's all over,
Chalabi-gate will reach into the favored nesting place of the neocons, the
very top echelons .of the Pentagon.
As UPI editor Martin Walker reports:
"The real target goes beyond Chalabi. The hunt is on, in the Republican
Party, in Congress, in the CIA and State Department and in a media
which is being deluged with leaks, for' Chalabi's friends and sponsors in
Washington - the group known as the neo-cons. In particular, the targets
seem to be Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the former assistant
secretary (in Reagan's day) Richard Perle, Vice President Dick Cheney's
national security aide Scooter Libby, and the National Security Council's
Middle East aide Elliott Abrams. The leaking against them - from sources
who insist on .anonymity, but some CIA and FBI veterans - is intense.
Some of the sources are now private citizens, making a good living
through business connections in the Arab world."
Speaking of business connections, how does Richard Perle maKe his living
except by using his governmentconnections to profit handsomely from the
war-driven neocon agenda? Oh well, never mind that: let's get to the juicy
'part. Walker also reports that these poor persecuted neocons "are now
beginning to fight back, II and in a familiar fashion:
"Richard Perle told this reporter Tuesday that the gloves were off. ... Perle
has no doubts that some of the attacks on him are- coming directly from
the CIA, in. order to cover their own exposed rears, attacking Chalabi's
intelligence to distract attention from their own mistakes. 7 believe that
much of th~ CIA operation in Iraq was owned by Saddam Hussein,' Perle
said. 'There were 45 decapitation attempts against Saddam - and he
survived them all. How could that be, if he was not manipulating the
intelligence?'"
Gee, I guess this means that, on account of all those failed IIdecapitation
attempts" on Fidel Castro over the years, the Cuban Communists exercised
joint ownership of the CIA along with Saddam's Ba'athists. Oh, what a Perle
of wisdom, but the Prince of Darkness was just getting started:
"Perle went on to suggest an even darker motiv_e behind the attacks on the
neo-cons; that the real target was Israel's Likud governm~nt a11:d the
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