HISTORY 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi National Congress, Iraq Liberation Act
Document Summary
October 26 lecture: build up to the iraq war. Organized in 1992 by financier ahmad chalabi. Chalabi had embezzled million from his petra bank in jordan. Charged by cia with uniting factions (which were anti-saddam) in london. Chalabi"s banks mysteriously tend to go bankrupt, and his relatives and close friends seemed to get calls before the banks went bankrupt. But still managed to receive funds to open new banks. Chalabi was picked up as an agent. People who work for the cia in the field are field operative officers, people who the. Chalabi was good at getting people together, similar to a good real estate agent, and was a good deal closer. Supreme council for islamic revolution in iraq. Chalabi tries to get up a revolt against saddam. Hundreds of volunteers killed by iraqi army. Was called gucci revolutionaries because chalabi was in the back dressed in silk robes. Kurds wanted loose federalism, nobody else wanted that.
