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11th March 2003, 16:51
Commentary:Why Defense hawks cut Chalabi
By Martin Sieff
UPI Senior News Analyst
WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) -- Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress is no longer welcome among his former friends in the Pentagon.
True believers in the controversial Iraqi opposition leader have been filling the Internet and sympathetic media pulpits with their outrage about how he and, supposedly Iraqi democracy have been stabbed in the back by the very Pentagon civilian planners in the Office of the Secretary of Defense who for years have been his staunchest supporters.
For in recent weeks, the Department of Defense civilian super-hawks who have eagerly advocated and new plan to prosecute the looming war with Iraq have unveiled an entirely new and far more limited and repressive conception of Iraq's immediate political future once President Saddam Hussein -- as they still assume -- has been toppled, exiled or killed.
Full Story (http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030307-092710-3308r)
(Edited by CiaranB at 4:53 pm on Mar. 11, 2003)
By Martin Sieff
UPI Senior News Analyst
WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) -- Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress is no longer welcome among his former friends in the Pentagon.
True believers in the controversial Iraqi opposition leader have been filling the Internet and sympathetic media pulpits with their outrage about how he and, supposedly Iraqi democracy have been stabbed in the back by the very Pentagon civilian planners in the Office of the Secretary of Defense who for years have been his staunchest supporters.
For in recent weeks, the Department of Defense civilian super-hawks who have eagerly advocated and new plan to prosecute the looming war with Iraq have unveiled an entirely new and far more limited and repressive conception of Iraq's immediate political future once President Saddam Hussein -- as they still assume -- has been toppled, exiled or killed.
Full Story (http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030307-092710-3308r)
(Edited by CiaranB at 4:53 pm on Mar. 11, 2003)