{"id":1995,"date":"2004-05-26T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2004-05-26T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-26T19:19:00","slug":"played-for-patsies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/05\/26\/15\/19\/played-for-patsies\/","title":{"rendered":"Played For Patsies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So as well as blindly following the &#8220;Crusader&#8221; scripts written for them by Bin Laden, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/iran\/story\/0,12858,1224825,00.html\">Bush and the neoconned also apparently played right into the hands of Iran<\/a> through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/iran\/story\/0,12858,1224917,00.html\">Chalabi<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/iran\/story\/0,12858,1224076,00.html\">&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty clear that Iranians had us for breakfast, lunch and dinner,&#8221; said an intelligence source in Washington yesterday. &#8220;Iranian intelligence has been manipulating the US for several years through Chalabi.&#8221; Larry Johnson, a former senior counter-terrorist official at the state department, said: &#8220;When the story ultimately comes out we&#8217;ll see that Iran has run one of the most masterful intelligence operations in history. They persuaded the US and Britain to dispose of its greatest enemy.&#8221; &#8230; An intelligence source in Washington said the FBI investigation into the affair would begin with Mr Chalabi&#8217;s &#8220;handlers&#8221; in the Pentagon, who include William Luti, the former head of the office of special plans, and his immediate superior, Douglas Feith.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004_05_16_WeekArchive.php#'108517455258038586'\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004_05_16_WeekArchive.php#'108517172812843574'\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as well as blindly following the &#8220;Crusader&#8221; scripts written for them by Bin Laden, Bush and the neoconned also apparently played right into the hands of Iran through Chalabi&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty clear that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}