Investigation: Chalabi "feeded lies by the American media" to achieve the invasion of Iraq for "personal" interests - Urgent
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The American Foreign Affairs newspaper revealed new information related to the war on Iraq and the role played by the media in preparing for the invasion of the country in 2003, indicating that most of the information that the US media and the administration in Washington relied on to justify the war was "fake" and came from only one source.
And the newspaper's investigation, which was translated by (Baghdad Today), showed that the team of Knight Ridder Media Company, one of the largest former media groups in the United States, which was publishing 32 newspapers before its purchase in 2006, took a "skeptical" position on the information that the US administration was using to link Iraq to the organization The terrorist al-Qaeda, and the allegations it made that the former regime had weapons of mass destruction.
That situation prompted the team into a "direct confrontation" with the US Secretary of Defense at the time, Donald Rumsfeld, who threatened one of the newspaper's directors and the most famous correspondent on the former Vietnam War in the United States, Joe Galloway, to take legal action against him and the media team if he continued his "hostile" position to the official discourse. The American, which Galloway and the Knight Ridder newspaper group rejected.
The suspicions of the American network at the time led to the lifting of secrecy about a group of factors that led to the illegal invasion of Iraq, as the Foreign Affairs investigation revealed that era and the work of the network, to naming "Ahmed Chalabi" and his team in what is known as the "Iraqi National Congress" as the main source. For all the "fake" information that the US administration used to justify the war.
In the context of listing the details, the investigation indicated that the US administration, on the twenty-second of September, only eleven days after the attack on the World Trade Center towers, began to think seriously about the "occupation of Iraq", and for that it needed all the media support that it could get to justify that. The occupation, since Iraq and its former regime, was not linked in any way to Al Qaeda, or to the attacks that took place on the United States of America, according to the investigation.
In the context of achieving this, the US administration sent former CIA director James Woolsey to Wales in Britain, where he set up a working group aimed at "finding evidence linking former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to the terrorist organization Al Qaeda and the attack on the United States of America," those endeavors. failed, according to the newspaper.
Hopes to "justify the invasion of Iraq" were renewed only a few days later, when the opposition politician Ahmed Chalabi and his team known as the National Congress appeared in the picture, whom the investigation defined as "political opposition outside Iraq to Saddam's regime," confirmed according to the author of the investigation and the former director of Ryder Knight's office in Washington. John Walcott, that his meeting with Chalabi earlier, through a friend, proved to him that this person is not trustworthy, explaining, "I told my friend the mediator at the time, that I would return the leftovers of change if this person gave it to me," referring to his lack of confidence in Chalabi.
What followed, according to Walcott's investigation, is that Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress began to "feed the media and the US government with lies about Saddam Hussein's government's involvement in supporting the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, and its possession of weapons of mass destruction," stressing that "Chalabi and his group were enthusiastic about the idea of controlling Iraq and its vast oil resources." clearly".
That "false" information included the news of the American media and intelligence, that Saddam Hussein communicated with the leader of the terrorist al-Qaeda organization, Osama bin Laden, through the Iraqi ambassador to Turkey at the time, Farouk Hijazi, who traveled to Afghanistan to meet him, stressing, "although this information is accurate." Until Hijazi carried Bin Laden's offer to take refuge in Iraq, which the latter rejected because he did not trust Saddam," before explaining that the differences between Saddam "the secular dictator and his sons who are alcoholics and chase women, are not intellectually compatible with the Salafi jihadist thought that Bin Laden and his organization carry." , according to his description.
Although the information was "false", according to the assurances obtained by Knight Rider, and led to its refusal to publish it, the US media was "very eager to publish any lies it obtained with the aim of pushing for war against Iraq, fueled by hatred and a desire for revenge for the events that took place." It took place inside the United States in September 2001," according to its description.
Those attempts did not stop at the first false information, which was denied by American intelligence officers who confirmed to Knight Ridder at the time, that the intelligence of one of the Arab countries had agents inside Bin Laden's camp, who confirmed to them the latter's refusal to resort to Saddam Hussein after the events of September, but she also transgressed it. Another attempt, through which Chalabi and the National Congress tried to push American public opinion to support Washington's efforts to invade Iraq, revolved around informing the American media of the existence of "a camp for training terrorists by Saddam's regime operating in the Salman Pak area, and training them to hijack planes."
The investigation confirmed, "After communicating with the American CIA officers, they confirmed to the Night Rider network at the time that they were monitoring that camp, and it was not training terrorists to hijack planes, but rather official security forces to combat hijacking of planes, and when they were asked about the reason that prompted Saddam to train his forces to Fighting hijackings, they confirmed to the network at the time, that Saddam's regime was worried that bin Laden would target Iraq in the same way he targeted the World Trade Center.
And with the failure of the two previous attempts by Chalabi and the National Congress to pass the stories on a large scale, however, the American media, according to the investigation of Foreign Affairs, "swallowed that false information, and spread it eagerly," stressing, "Chalabi and his team have proven unparalleled success in influencing the American media and leading public opinion towards their interests by invading Iraq." Which at the time coincided with the wishes of many officials within the Bush administration," according to his description.
The publication of the American media and the repetition by American politicians of the lies unleashed by Chalabi and his team, despite the "continuous denials by intelligence specialists and the official security intelligence agencies of those lies", eventually led to Chalabi and those with him shifting from trying to link Saddam Hussein and his regime to Osama bin Laden and his organization, to Alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction.
Newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post and networks such as CNN, Fox, and others, made sure to repeat the false information that was the source of Chalabi, "although many of them knew that it was fake," according to the description of Walcott, who gave his full testimony through the investigation, to deal later with other false information, which was The most important of which is the allegation that Saddam’s regime purchased “aluminum tubes” used in uranium enrichment, on which the US administration built its claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, at the same time that specialized scientific institutions such as the energy company in Oak Ridge and the CIA were “categorically denying” The possibility that these tubes could be used for the purposes of developing or enriching uranium."
In any case, the US administration "grabbed Chalabi's lies, while the American media in general swallowed everything that Chalabi presented and presented it to the American public opinion as facts, which eventually led to a conflict within the US government between those who support the overthrow of Saddam's regime and the occupation of Iraq using false information, and those who oppose it. It ended up with an official notification from the US President's office in 2002, that he had decided to invade Iraq, and that all US state institutions should work to sell the war to the American people by all means.
The American media, which at the time was still "disseminating facts and the truth away from the drums of war that the American administration was beating and mocking Chalabi's lies and the American media", was subjected to an opposition campaign that led to the withdrawal of advertisements from it, with the aim of forcing it to close, which was achieved in 2006 after the The Knight Rider Group lost its independence, following its purchase from a larger media network.
Those lies, their effects are still visible today on the American media and politics, which has completely lost public confidence in it, and has turned into a platform for the American authorities through which they pass their agenda and employ them to achieve their goals and publish their speeches without challenge or review, until today "the American media did not learn from the scenario Iraq, twenty years after the invasion and destruction, continues its approach of self-destruction,” stressing at the conclusion of the investigation, “The Knight Rider network declared bankruptcy in 2020, leaving the false American media, continuing to work, to leave a final message to the world, if you want to know what is going on in the street Ask the policeman on the street corner, not the governor or the police chief," according to her description.
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