Chalabi Recounted to Al-Hayat a Long Story of Pursuit That Changed the Face of Iraq and Shook Up the Balance of The Region
Al-Hayat 21/03/09
Introduction
I asked Dr. Ahmad Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress and former deputy prime minister, what he would tell former American President George Bush if they were to meet on the sixth anniversary of the American invasion [of Iraq]. He answered: "I would...
BAGHDAD — Late last month Blackwater Worldwide lost its billion-dollar contract to protect American diplomats here, but by next month many if not most of its private security guards will be back on the job in Iraq.
The same individuals will just be wearing new uniforms, working for Triple Canopy, the firm that won the State Department’s...
Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders
BAGHDAD — An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic...
Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders
BAGHDAD — An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic...
By AHMAD CHALABIPublished: November 22, 2008
THE Iraq war is over.
It ends five years too late and at far too terrible a cost in lives, money and idealism. The difficult and tortuous negotiations over the American withdrawal now coming to an end in Baghdad offer a distorted glimpse of what might have been.
The independent, democratically elected...
هذه
الصفحة وما ينشر عليها وعلى الروابط التابعة لها لا تمثل
بالضرورة رأي موقع المؤتمر او المؤتمر ، وانما تمثل آراء
الاخوة الذين كتبوها وارسلوها للنشر. ولن يتحمل الموقع او
المؤتمر الوطني العراقي اي تبعة قانونية من جراء نشرها.
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