Chalabi aide arrested on suspicion of Baghdad bombings

[laststeamtrain]

Chalabi aide arrested on suspicion of Baghdad bombings
Nicholas Spangler and Hussein Kadhim | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: August 28, 2008 07:42:18 PM

BAGHDAD — U.S. forces have arrested a deputy of Ahmad Chalabi, who was once the Bush administration's favorite Iraqi politician, and implicated him in bombings that killed Americans and Iraqis, Chalabi and Iraqi government officials said Thursday.

The U.S. military alleged that the arrested official was working with the "highest echelons" of the Iranian "special groups" criminals, referring to what the U.S. military says are Iranian-backed militias operating in Iraq.

Ali Faisal al Lami, a Shiite Muslim official and a member of the Sadrist Party who's serving as an executive of the Justice and Accountability Committee, which Chalabi heads, was arrested Wednesday at Baghdad International Airport as he returned from a family vacation in Lebanon, Iraqi officials said. The Justice and Accountability Committee screens former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party who are applying for jobs in the government.

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Chalabi condemned the arrest Thursday night. "This incident shows the need for an end to the random arrest of Iraqis by the American forces, which are against the human rights outlined in the constitution. It proves for a fact that each Iraqi might be arrested or put in prison without knowing the reasons," he said in a news release. He couldn't be reached for further comment.

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/51031.html

[blogslut]

1. Well, this is interesting

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[magellan]

2. Why is Chalabi still free, that's the question n/t

[RC]

3. Rumsfeld bombed Baghdad first. Why isn't he under arrest?

BTY, Just what were we bombing in Baghdad with those MOABs and other high explosives?
Baghdad was/is a civilian city, much like New York or Chicago or Atlanta only bigger - Population 7,000,000. There wasn't much in real military targets. How many families vanished in a pink mist that night? People whose only crime was to be living where someone had put a mark on a map.

[Octafish]

4. Remember the false flag British commandos in Basra?

Two British soldiers dressed as locals killed an Iraqi policeman who approached their car. They tried to escape and were jailed. The British army freed them using tanks.

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/bb/index.php?showtopic=19004&pid=123945&mode=threaded&start=

Nothing to see here. Move along.

[deminks]

5. Someone should ask McShame about this.

If he remembers Chalabi, that is. He should. He was his biggest defender.

[Kansas Wyatt]

6. Democrats should push that in the election.

Let McSame stutter and stammer about his intelligence, judgment, and experience.

[laststeamtrain]

7. Scheunemann hearts Chalabi.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Randy_Scheunemann