How Chalabi played the press; ie Salman Pak was NOT a terrorist camp.

[LynnTheDem]

Douglas MacCollam, a journalist for the Columbia Journalism Review; "the consensus view now is that the camp was what Iraq told UN weapons inspectors it was — a counterterrorism training camp for army commandos."

The 108 stories ran between October 2001 and the end of May 2002, a period when the INC was laboring mightily to make sure that America’s burgeoning “war on terror” reached to the heart of Baghdad.

“The INC’s agenda was to get us into a war,” says Helen Kennedy, a reporter for the New York Daily News, whose name appears on the list. “The really damaging stories all came from those guys, not the CIA. They did a really sophisticated job of getting it out there.”

http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/4/mccollam-list.asp

Gee, just like the Iraqi government said the "wienie trucks of death" were for artillery balloons...and were correct.

So GUESS who was yammering on about all them thar "WMD" and such? The INC. Chalabi's Iraq National Congress.

No wonder he smirks with his "THANKS, SUCKERS!"