Has Washington found its Iranian Chalabi?
Mother Jones
by Laura Rozen
10/06/06
This past summer, an op-ed appeared in the Washington Post under the byline of Richard Perle, the influential former Pentagon adviser who was a chief booster of Ahmed Chalabi in the run-up to the war in Iraq. As he had prior to the invasion of Iraq, Perle urged the Bush administration to shun appeasement and take an uncompromising stand toward Tehran; as with Iraq, he argued that a hard line was critical to help the population overthrow a brutal regime. And once again, Perle had an exile leader he wanted America to know about: Amir Abbas Fakhravar, 'an Iranian dissident student leader who escaped first from Tehran's notorious Evin prison, then, after months in hiding, from Iran'...
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/11/fakhravar.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalabi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Perle
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fakhravar
by Laura Rozen
10/06/06
This past summer, an op-ed appeared in the Washington Post under the byline of Richard Perle, the influential former Pentagon adviser who was a chief booster of Ahmed Chalabi in the run-up to the war in Iraq. As he had prior to the invasion of Iraq, Perle urged the Bush administration to shun appeasement and take an uncompromising stand toward Tehran; as with Iraq, he argued that a hard line was critical to help the population overthrow a brutal regime. And once again, Perle had an exile leader he wanted America to know about: Amir Abbas Fakhravar, 'an Iranian dissident student leader who escaped first from Tehran's notorious Evin prison, then, after months in hiding, from Iran'...
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/11/fakhravar.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalabi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Perle
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fakhravar
rudkla - 11. Okt, 16:49
