tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9356414.post112733333438269686..comments2024-03-09T03:15:55.350-05:00Comments on jazzoLOG: America Dies In Its Sleepjazzologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16647170784964378640noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9356414.post-1128763884047075502005-10-08T05:31:00.000-04:002005-10-08T05:31:00.000-04:00Will Tom DeLay Get Away?Frankly I've been very wor...Will Tom DeLay Get Away?<BR/><BR/>Frankly I've been very worried about this. The first indictment seemed flawed and quickly was replaced by a second, under protest of DeLay's skilled lawyer. That alone was a technicality I thought sure any Texan could blast through. Yesterday John Dean mounted a summary and some analysis that should interest you~~~<BR/> <BR/>http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20051007.htmljazzologhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647170784964378640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9356414.post-1127542698020514912005-09-24T02:18:00.000-04:002005-09-24T02:18:00.000-04:00Dutifully I have been paging through Google News t...Dutifully I have been paging through Google News these past 3 days, looking for any update on this missing billions story. US press has yet to cover it, and the UK has fallen silent...rather in a mess of its own over reaction to that rescue thing. <BR/><BR/>Now we have a report from Al Mendhar in Iraq that Jordan officials say no extradition request has come to them for the former defense minister, despite the accusations that were made against Hazem Shaalan. http://www.almendhar.com/english_6398/news.aspx That doesn't mean one won't, but one wonders about the delay. That comment from Jordan follows a statement made Thursday by a senior aide to former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, also in Jordan, that the whole story is made up. What he had to say is so complicated I'll just put up the whole thing~~~<BR/> <BR/>Posted on 22 Sep 2005 # Reuters <BR/><BR/>Allawi aide says Iran behind "smear campaign": <BR/><BR/>AMMAN: Iraqi former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and his former defence minister are targets of an Iraqi government smear campaign inspired by neighbouring Iran, a senior Allawi aide said today.<BR/><BR/>Ibrahim al-Janabi, deputy head of the National Accord Movement (Wifaq) headed by Allawi, said allegations against former defence minister Hazem Shaalan in connection with the disappearance of 1 billion dollars from his ministry were a fabrication designed to prevent secular leaders from returning to power.<BR/><BR/>''There are elements within the government that have strong ties with Iranian intelligence who seek to stir these issues,'' Janabi told Reuters in Amman. ''This attack we believe is Iranian-inspired but with Iraqi tools that implement it.'' Allawi, interim prime minister from June 2004 until an elected government took over in April, is a secular-minded Shi'ite politician believed to have ambitions to lead his country again. He criticised Iranian influence while in office and Shaalan once described Iran as Iraq's ''prime enemy''.<BR/><BR/>The government formed in April after parliamentary elections in January is dominated by Islamist Shi'ite parties that found refuge in Iran during Saddam Hussein's time.<BR/><BR/>Radhi al-Radhi, the head of Iraq's Committee on Public Integrity, said this week he had handed evidence against Shaalan to Iraq's central criminal court two months ago and expected a warrant for his arrest to be issued soon.<BR/><BR/>Shaalan, who is in Jordan, has denied any wrongdoing regarding arms procurement during his tenure.<BR/><BR/>Janabi, Wifaq's deputy leader, said the main reason behind the campaign against Allawi and Shaalan was their opposition to what he called Iranian meddling and subversion in Iraq.<BR/><BR/>''We expect the campaign to increase and to take the form of direct assassinations of figures who seek to consolidate the national programme away from foreign influences led by Iran.'' Janabi said investigators in the alleged corruption affair were all Shi'ite parties in the government with links to Iran.<BR/><BR/>''Iranian elements want to create a sectarian project in Iraq that leads to its partition,'' he said. <BR/><BR/>Copyright 2001-2005 newkerala.com<BR/>http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=24767<BR/><BR/>What I say is do we have any accounting of what this war is costing...and where the money is going? Is money missing? If it is, why and how? If it isn't, clearly we have a government there in complete disarray. Can you imagine a charge like this about a sum this huge against a former administration made in your country...and nobody bats an eye? I thought Bush said this whole venture is a model of American democracy.jazzologhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647170784964378640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9356414.post-1127333531567496692005-09-21T16:12:00.000-04:002005-09-21T16:12:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com