Another Iraq story gets debunked "In November 2001, just two months after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, two high-profile U.S. journalists Chris Hedges of the New York Times and Christopher Buchanan of PBS' "Frontline" were ushered to a meeting in a Beirut hotel with a man identified as Jamal al-Ghurairy, an Iraqi lieutenant general who had fled Saddam Hussein. The high-ranking Iraqi military officer claimed he had witnessed terrorist training camps in Iraq where Islamic militants learned how to hijack airplanes. About 40 foreign nationals were based there at any given time, he said. "We were training these people to attack installations important to the United States," he told the journalists at the meeting arranged by the Iraqi National Congress. Now, the liberal investigative magazine Mother Jones has exposed the "general" as a fake. According to the magazine, the Ghurairy tale was one of 108 stories the Iraqi National Congress and Ahmed Chalabi, who was exiled from Iraq, planted in the American and British media between October 2001 and May 2002".Just one more story of many of how the Bush administration and their Iraqi point-man, Ahmed Chalabi, deliberately misled the media and duped the American public into needlessly invading a country that wasn't a threat. And in the meantime, our young men and women are still dying, we're spending $8 billion a month, and Ahmed Chalabi is trying to get appointed Iraq's oil minister. Maybe Chalabi will have something eventually to payback those who allowed him to dupe the sheep and to go along.
