Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Asia Times Jun 2, 2004:The selection of Iyad Allawi to become prime minister of the interim government of Iraq from July 1 is a surprising development
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Allawi, the founder of Iraqi National Accord (INA), is a former Ba'athist and an ex-military man. He built his career as an anti-Saddam expatriate by consistently cooperating with, and supplying intelligence to, the British MI6 and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Consequently, his nomination as prime minister is perceived, at least in Washington, as a success for the Department of State and the CIA.
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His organization, INA, is also infamously known for passing on intelligence to MI6 that claimed that Saddam could launch a weapons-of-mass-destruction attack within 45 minutes. .....---
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