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2005-11-09 Iraq

Tehran Backing Chalabi as Iraq's Next PM

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Posted by Fred 2005-11-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And, in parallel with a previous comment thanking the Black Hats for identifying those on their enemies list, I thank them for telling us who they favor. I love transparency in foreign relations, lol. Hell, in all aspects of government. The UN should give it a try, lol.

So, Chalabi, I hope we work like hell to bring you down, ya prick.

Posted by .com 2005-11-09 00:34|| 2005-11-09 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 .com, beware of preplanned disinformation campaigns...

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-11-09 03:08|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-11-09 03:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd say you have a point, a very good point indeed, Mr Yee, if we weren't talking about the Mad & Crazy Mullahs. If you think about it, they have been as clear as glass for years - the only surprise being that they had been smart to keep their nuclear program under wraps for so long. When it came out they seemed to lose it entirely. I doubt they've suddenly become clever. Besides, I don't like this prick either, LOL.

Posted by Omolurong Spomble5401 2005-11-09 05:47|| 2005-11-09 05:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting, but take with a grain of salt. Its an arab paper, quoting unnamed sources in Iran. It suggest what to me strains credulity - that hard line elements in Iran have given up on SCIRI and Muqty. And the takeaway from this is so overwhelming - Allawi, hes really the only hope, hes going from strength to strength, hes the one the US can trust, hes the one Sistani wants - well it gets a big hit on my planted story meter - the Allawi people, or some of Allawis many friends could be behind this story.

I mean if you like unsourced stories, that give you the inside scoop, but have suspiciously slanted agendas, you can pick up the Washington Post. :)

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-11-09 10:00|| 2005-11-09 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Given that:

1) Asharq al-Awsat is a [Sunni] Arabic paper published out of Britain, and thus not exactly in the Shia mainstream

2) The Shia political alliance which Chalabi just left was otherwise composed of the Sadrists (the forthright velayat-e-faqih party, backed by a radical faction out of Qom) SCIRI (the once-upon-a-time-but-not-now-really religious-rule people, directly backed by the more mainstream government elements in Teheran) and al-Dawa, (milquetoast sort-of-supported-by-Iran Islamic party with delusions of Walter Mittyism). Chalabi just *left* the Iranian-backed coalition.

3) The Iranians have made a practice of leaking all sorts of embarrassing bullshit about their dealings with Chalabi at inopportune times. If heâs a member of the Iranian family, itâs as the red-headed stepchild, because they certainly beat him often enough.

Anyways, if Chalabi & the Iranians were trying to set up an Iranian-dominated Iraqi government, they're going about it in a damned peculiar fashion by splitting their ticket just before the elections, with both fractions making faces at each other in the local media.

Almost certainly, this is Allawi's people trying to take the wind out of the sails of a prospective secularist rival. After all, Allawi's Iraqi National Accord was based in London before the war - what's the chances that your average writer with the foremost Arabic paper in England would have INA contacts?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2005-11-09 10:17|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2005-11-09 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Interesting, but just for the hellofit, since neither of you actually said it, who would you want to win the next election?

Doesn't Allawi represent the guy with the fewest strings attached and the biggest stones for follow-thru?

Just curious.

Posted by Regnad Kcin 2005-11-09 10:28|| 2005-11-09 10:28|| Front Page Top

#7 If I wuz an Iraqi voter, I suppose Id lean to Allawi (there are some smaller coalition parties that are much better according to some Iraqi bloggers i like, but theyre not likely to win nationwide) But I dont know id rule out Chalabi, and I certainly wouldnt expect that a Chalabi win means Iranian rule.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-11-09 11:04|| 2005-11-09 11:04|| Front Page Top

#8 To be honest? I'd probably vote for the Kurd slate, but then I'm a conservative who re-registered as a Democrat because there's too damned many Republicans in my part of the state.

Allawi is probably the better of the two secular Shia, if only because Chalabi is such a archery butt that I can't make heads or tails of who he actually is, as opposed to who the Jordanians, the CIA, the State Department, and the Iranians say he is.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2005-11-09 12:06|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2005-11-09 12:06|| Front Page Top

#9 but then I'm a conservative who re-registered as a Democrat because there's too damned many Republicans in my part of the state.

You will be back, no worries.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-09 12:10|| 2005-11-09 12:10|| Front Page Top

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