habbush letter造句

• In the book, Suskind alleges Richer was involved in fabricating the Habbush letter, which appeared to show a link between Al Qaeda and the government of Saddam Hussein.
• There was never any mystery about what it was, what the Habbush letter was, what the Habbush mission entailed, in terms of the setup with the Iraq intelligence chief.
• Just before the Telegraph published information about the Habbush letter, Allawi was at CIA headquarters in Langley; after the forged letter hit the international media, Allawi " suddenly returned to favor in Baghdad and eclipsed Chalabi, at least for a while.
• The White House, former CIA director George Tenet, and former CIA officer Robert Richer, a figure in the book, denied involvement in the illegal act of fabricating the Habbush letter, denials that were echoed in an official CIA statement, saying of Suskind's claim that the White House ordered the agency to forge a letter from Habbush : " It did not happen ."
• In 2005 Giraldi also wrote that the Italian Niger / yellowcake documents claiming an Iraqi interest in purchasing uranium from Niger were forgeries created by former CIA officers and Michael Ledeen . ( See Niger uranium forgeries . ) Giraldi also wrote that officials in the Office of Special Plans working for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith had forged the " Habbush letter " allegedly written by Saddam Hussein's intelligence director regarding shipping the uranium.
• In response to the official CIA statement, Suskind told " The Washington Post " that the disclosures and details in his book are backed up by hours of interviews and that there is " not a shred of doubt about any of it . " On August 11, House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers announced that his committee would look into the matter of the Habbush letter and a variety of other disclosures in the book.
• The layers of the controversy have nonetheless deepened with the revelation that Ayad Allawi, the initial source of the Habbush letter, was at CIA headquarters the week before the letter emerged, and a piece in " The American Conservative " by Philip Giraldi that claims an " extremely reliable and well placed source in the intelligence community " confirmed that the Vice President's Office was behind the Habbush letter, but that " Doug Feith s Office of Special Plans ", not the CIA, carried out the forgery.
• The layers of the controversy have nonetheless deepened with the revelation that Ayad Allawi, the initial source of the Habbush letter, was at CIA headquarters the week before the letter emerged, and a piece in " The American Conservative " by Philip Giraldi that claims an " extremely reliable and well placed source in the intelligence community " confirmed that the Vice President's Office was behind the Habbush letter, but that " Doug Feith s Office of Special Plans ", not the CIA, carried out the forgery.