Counterfeit trail led to Chalabi

[salin]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9698810%255E2703,00.html

Think this may be a little too late for LBN ...

Counterfeit trail led to Chalabi
From The Sunday Times
May 31, 2004
THE thick, black smoke that drifted over the prosperous Mansour suburb of Baghdad last January had nothing to do with the bomb blasts and rocket fire that shook the Iraqi capital almost daily. In special furnaces built into an old warehouse complex near the former headquarters of the Mukhabarat intelligence service, Iraqi workers were burning money.

The coalition's decision to introduce a new Iraqi currency could scarcely have been avoided. No one wanted banknotes bearing the face of Saddam Hussein. Yet the operation to exchange and destroy countless old Iraqi dinars was an invitation to fraud.

The way judge Zuhair Maleki related the story last week, a routine investigation into a giant currency fiddle eventually led to a heavily guarded Baghdad compound belonging to Ahmad Chalabi, the former London banker whose high-level US connections had eased him into a prominent role on the interim Iraqi Governing Council.

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[pinto]

1. Chalabi, that old embezzler! Who would have thought.....

as you know, Chalabi is a convicted (in absentia) felon in Jordan. Bank fraud.....He loves us for his freedom, or something like that.