America, Iraq and the legacy of Ahmad Chalabi
My first meeting with Ahmad Chalabi was 16 years ago. I was working on a story about what was then a little known organization — Al Qaeda — and the August 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. A colleague suggested that Chalabi had something to say about the plot. Back then, he […]Martin Smith reports for Frontline:
My first meeting with Ahmad Chalabi was 16 years ago. I was working on a story about what was then a little known organization — Al Qaeda — and the August 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. A colleague suggested that Chalabi had something to say about the plot. Back then, he was spending most of his time in Washington making the rounds between Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, the CIA, the State Department and the White House. He was trying to convince anyone who would listen that Saddam Hussein was a grave threat to the United States and that America needed to do everything it could do to topple his regime.
I set up a dinner meeting. By the time Chalabi arrived, two hours late, he told me he had already eaten someplace else.
