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Date Posted: 21:39:51 04/27/03 Sun
Author: SurveyGuy
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Subject: So much for integrity of reporters in the U.K. and Arab countries, and quite a few here, no doubt. More details should emerge on this, I would hope . . .

http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/4/27/142203
Sunday April 27, 2003; 2:18 p.m. EDT
Chalabi: American Moles Recruited by Saddam

The man backed by many in the Bush administration to head Baghdad's postwar government said Sunday that documents uncovered over the weekend show that Saddam Hussein tried to recruit U.S. citizens to undermine the Bush adminsitration's war effort in Iraq.

"We have captured a great many files of Saddam's services and there is astounding information about the extent of their networks and their efforts to recruit foreign nationals - including Americans - to work in the Mukabahrat [Iraqi intelligence service]," said Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress.

"I think that this is something that must be pursued," Chalabi told "Fox News Sunday." "The files contain a great deal of information about how [Iraqi intelligence] compromised people, how they bought agents and how they influenced foreign leaders."

While Chalabi declined to name names, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol suggested a few minutes later that U.S. journalists as well as elected officials were among those targeted by Saddam's Mukabahrat recruiters.

Discussing the case of George Galloway, the antiwar British politician who allegedly took over a million dollars from Baghdad, Kristol said that Galloway was "the tip of the iceberg."

"There were reporters - including many Arab reporters - who were on Saddam's payroll," he told "Fox News Sunday's" Tony Snow.

The Weekly Standard editor singled out the Al Jazeera television network, which was sympathetic to both Saddam Hussein and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.

"Saddam showered gifts [on reporters]... Mercedes limousines would show up at the homes of various journalists in Jordan, Egypt, etc.," Kristol claimed.

He added that the recipients of Baghdad's largesse may also have included "other Western politicians, perhaps, [who] were on the take."

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[> Gee Al Jeezera was being paid by Saddam, what next the sun rises in the east? I'm shocked. [/sarcasm] -- Surf, 09:45:08 04/28/03 Mon (pool-141-151-2-56.phil.east.verizon.net/141.151.2.56)

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