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Powell-Blair Iraq Dossier Was Cooked In Israel
By Jeffrey Steinberg
Executive Intelligence Review
www.LaRouchePub.com/eiw
2-18-3
According to media accounts, the 10 Downing Street "dossier," cited
favorably by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in his disastrous Feb. 5
report to the United Nations Security Council, was plagiarized from an
American graduate school paper, based on information more than a
decade old. The scandal that erupted when the Blair dossier hoax hit the
press, seriously undermined the credibility of those war party advocates of
an immediate Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. As Lyndon LaRouche wrote,
Powell was set up by a gang of public relations flacks who can't think
straight.
So far, so good. But a deeper probe into the scandal reveals that there
was good reason that the spin-meisters at the Coalition Information
Center--the Washington-London civilian government propaganda unit that
crafted both the Blair dossier and major portions of Secretary Powell's
own lighter-than-air book of evidence-- did not reveal the sources of their
information. The entire cooked intelligence picture was "Made in Israel." It
was cooked up at a right- wing think-tank complex notorious as a hotbed
of radical Likudnik propaganda, and with links to the Office of Vice
President Dick Cheney, via his Chief of Staff Lewis Libby and his former
client, Marc Rich.
The essential facts are as follows: Two days before Powell's UN
appearance, 10 Downing Street issued a 16-page paper, "Iraq: Its
Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception, and Intimidation," purportedly
based on high-level British intelligence data. In fact, at least 11 of the 16
pages were lifted, verbatim, from an Israeli journal, {Middle East Review of
International Affairs}, whose sole proprieter is Dr. Barry Rubin, an
American-born Israeli citizen. The 11 pages were drawn from two articles,
by Ibrahim al-Marashi and Robert Rabil, that appeared in the September
2002 edition of that journal.
Al-Marashi's article, a profile of Iraqi intelligence, was drawn, largely, from
Iraqi government documents confiscated during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Al-Marashi, in turn, heavily footnoted his article to other, earlier stories
published in Rubin's obscure online journal, by Amazia Baram, the journal's
deputy editor.
This was no bit of grammar school plagiarism. The public relations team
that put together the Blair and Powell propaganda drivel were themselves
linked to Rubin and his fellow Israeli pranksters, through Ahmed Chalabi's
discredited and corrupt Iraqi National Congress (INC).
Chalabi, University of Chicago protege of the late utopian Albert
Wohlstetter, then fugitive swindler, was adopted as the Iraqi oppositionist-
of-choice by Israeli "X Committee" agent and chairman of the Defense
Policy Board Richard Perle and his British Arab Bureau handler, Dr. Bernard
Lewis, in the 1980s.
RUBIN AND THE CHICKEN-HAWK INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Rubin issued a statement following the Downing Street dossier flap, taking
full credit for the cooked intelligence report. His only complaint was that,
while the Blair government apologized to Al-Marashi, they did not issue a
similar public statement of regret to him and his journal.
To have done so would have been suicidal, as a quick review of Rubin's
pedigree makes clear.
According to three current biographies, Prof. Barry Rubin is the deputy
director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Israel, and a
senior fellow at Hebrew University's Harry Truman Center and Haifa
University's Jewish-Arab Center. He is the director of the Global Research
in International Affairs Center, research director of the Lauder School of
Government Policy and Diplomacy, and a senior fellow at the International
Center for Counterterrorist Policy (ICT)--all of which are part of the
Interdisciplinary Center, Israel's first private university, in Herzliya.
The Lauder School was named after Ronald Lauder, the former Reagan
Ambassador to Austria, former president of the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organizations, soon-to-be- successor of Edgar
Bronfman Sr. as head of the World Jewish Congress, and a notorious
financier of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and former Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The ICT, which co-sponsored a May 26, 2002 Herzliya center conference
on suicide terrorism with the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith, is
financed by the Marc Rich Foundation, the tax shelter of fugitive Russian
Mafiya don Marc Rich. Avner Azulay, a former Mossad officer and director
of the Rich Foundation, is an ICT director. Another publicly listed
associate of the ICT is Maj. Gen. Meir Dagan, one of Ariel Sharon's most
notorious thugs, and the current head of the Mossad.
Rubin, a transplanted Israeli citizen, still spends a good deal of time in the
United States. On Feb. 4, he was one of the speakers at a Willard Hotel
luncheon in Washington sponsored by Eleana Benador Associates, a New
York City public relations firm that counts among its clients the entire
chicken-hawk apparatus. Among the other speakers with Rubin were
Benador clients Perle, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney, Laurie Mylroie,
former UN weapons inspector Richard Spertzel, and former Iraqi weapons
scientist Khidhir Hamza.
Rubin is also the chief Middle East columnist for Conrad Black's Hollinger
Corp.-owned {Jerusalem Post}, and a senior fellow at the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), the think-tank spawn of the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the official Israel lobby in
America. His writings frequently appear in {Middle East Quarterly}, the
hyper-shrill propaganda journal of Daniel Pipes. Rubin and Pipes are both
funded by the Bradley Foundation, one of the quartet of ultra-right-wing
tax-exempt funds, along with the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Olin
Foundation, and the Mellon Scaife Foundation.
Typical of Rubin's prolific writings was a Dec. 3, 2002 Op-Ed in the {Wall
Street Journal}, entitled "Sharon the Centrist?" The article celebrated
Sharon's Likud party primary victory over Netanyahu, and assailed both
Netanyahu and the Labor Party candidate, Gen. Amram Mitzna, whom
Rubin labelled an apologist for the Yasser Arafat whom he termed an
unrepentant terrorist. In his Benador schpiel, Rubin echoed Perle and
Doug Feith's "A Clean Break" strategy, arguing that the U.S. invasion of Iraq
and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein would herald the "third Arab
revolution" of the postwar period, triggering a spontaneous outbreak of
democracy, human rights, and free trade throughout the Arab world.
Rubin's simplistic fantasy of a Middle East re-made in the American-Israeli
image has prompted some genuine experts to denounce him as the
"Bernard Lewis for dummies." Princeton Professor Lewis is the author of
the "Arc of Crisis" strategy for permanent instability in the Middle East.
THE COALITION INFORMATION CENTER
It takes two to tango. The Blair dossier--based on the cooked-in- Israel
propaganda of Rubin--and the Powell UN speech, were both largely the
work of the Coalition Information Center (CIC), an Anglo- American
government propaganda unit set up to counter opposition to the U.S.
bombing of Afghanistan, and later transformed into a permanent shared
venture of the White House and 10 Downing Street.
According to recent news accounts in {New Yorker} magazine and the
{New Republic}, the CIC was the brainchild of Gen. Wayne Downing (USA-
ret.)--who was chief of counter-terrorism at the National Security Council
until last June--and his deputy, former CIA officer Linda Flohr. The two
hired a discredited public relations firm, the Rendon Group, which had a
reputation for burning through government cash, but which had been
instrumental in the launching of Chalabi's INC. Downing, before joining the
White House team, was the "military advisor" to the INC. In mid-February,
Downing was in India, as part of a delegation from the Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs (JINSA), another thinly-disguised Israeli espionage
and recruiting front which targets retired American military and
intelligence officers.
John Rendon, a Jimmy Carter-era Democratic National Committee
executive director, made his connections to Team Bush in 1989, when he
handled the propaganda for the overthrow of Gen. Manuel Noriega. In
Panama, Rendon hooked up with CIA Iran-Contra operative Flohr, who got
Rendon the propaganda contract for Operation Desert Storm. In 1991,
President Bush signed a Presidential Finding, authorizing a covert campaign
to overthrow Saddam Hussein, and Rendon got an estimated $150 million in
CIA cash to manufacture a Potemkin Village opposition to the Baghdad
regime, built around Chalabi. According to investigative reporters Seymour
Hersh and Jeff Stein, most of the CIA money went to overpaid public
relations consultants, posh London flats, flights on the Concorde, and even
more suspect cash diversions. Ultimately, the CIA Inspector General got
into the act, and Rendon was dumped by the Agency.
Things improved for this crowd, once again, when "Bush 43" came to town.
Flohr, who had gone to work for the Rendon Group after retiring from the
CIA in 1994--and working for Oliver North's bullet- proof vest company--was
tapped by Downing to join him at the National Security Council (she is now
officially listed as the director of counter-terrorism for the NSC and
director of security for the Office of Homeland Security). Not only did
Rendon put together the CIC, but, following Sept. 11, 2001, he won a
$100,000 per month Pentagon contract to work for the short-lived Office
of Strategic Influence. This was a black-propaganda unit inside the Feith's
"chicken-hawk intelligence agency" led by William Luti, a retired Navy
captain who was seconded to the Pentagon from the Office of Vice
President Dick Cheney. When the {New York Times} exposed the planned
OSI agitprop unit, the plans were scrapped, but Rendon retained the
Pentagon cash-flow.
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