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| Chalabi says he holds embarrassing documents about King Abdullah |
| 2003-05-05 |
| Iraqi National Congress (INC) leader Ahmad Chalabi has taken possession of 25 tons of documents from Saddam Hussein's secret police, some of them onerous for the Jordanian royal family, Newsweek reported in its latest edition. "It's a huge thing. Some of the files are very damning," Chalabi told Newsweek in an interview, implying that some of the most incriminating material concerned Jordan's King Abdullah. The monarch, who has ruled Jordan since 1999, "is worried about his relationship with Saddam. He's worried about what might come out," Chalabi told Newsweek. Chalabi built and lost a banking empire in Jordan in the 1980s. After he was forced to flee the kingdom, he was convicted in absentia of fraud and embezzlement. Revenge is a dish best served cold. King Abdullah has recently said Ahmad Chalabi should not be in Iraq's new leadership because of embezzlement charges against him in Jordan and because of his long absence from Iraq. âWhat contacts does he have with the people on the street?â King Abdullah asked. Abdullah helped us out, hope we don't let a little personnel disagreement get in the way. This may just be a threat to get the Jordanians to back off on their lack of support for Chalabi. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 Yassir, work w/me here, you give Israel this and we give you, say, Jordan? After all, the queen is Palestinian. And we'll have Iraq give you good price on the oil. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-05-05 23:46:34 |
| #5 There's going to be so much come out from the files of Saddam Hussein that hardly anyone will be untouched. I just hope that what comes out doesn't cause irreparable harm to people we NEED to trust right now. All this is also going to make establishing a working interim government that much more difficult. Unfortunately, there's no way to stop the information from becoming widely known. There are just too many files in unsecured locations, and just about anybody that can has already found things they can use. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-05-05 15:46:25 |
| #4 If Foxnews was smart, they'd cozy up to Chalabi and get reprints of those files. More doozies are gonna come out (or be destroyed). |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-05-05 15:14:39 |
| #3 I dont think chalabi is worried so much about past vendettas, as the people saying nasty stuff about him now as part of maneuvering. Only makes sense hed do some countermaneuvering. Ironic that Chalabi is attacked for being long out of the country, by a monarch who spent years outside of Jordan pursuing higher education, et al. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-05-05 12:08:24 |
| #2 Funny that an hereditary monarch believes "contacts with the people on the street" is a requirement to lead an Arab country. |
| Posted by: JAB 2003-05-05 11:30:37 |
| #1 Chalabi worries me. He is more interested in his personal vendettas than in meaningful nation-building. |
| Posted by: ColoradoConservative 2003-05-05 11:23:22 |