Mystery Moneyman Behind Allawi's U.S. Lobbying Campaign To Run Iraq

Iraq Slogger:

Iraqi opposition leader Ayad Allawi's newly-hired Washington lobbying firm will likely be in violation of U.S. law unless it discloses the identity of the anonymous Iraqi supporter who is underwriting Allawi's U.S. lobbying campaign, legal analysts say.

As IraqSlogger first reported, $300,000 is being paid to the powerful lobbying firm of Barbour Griffith & Rogers (BGR) -- a firm with close ties to the Bush administration -- to help Allawi promote himself and his agenda, a centerpiece of which is the ouster Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki.

But a key question is who is paying BGR for Allawi's lobbying efforts?

Read the whole story: Iraq Slogger

Comments

[ChristinDemocrat]

10:51 PM on 08/29/2007

Who stands to gain the most. If Exxon, Bp, Shell loose there 30 year contract on the 3rd largest oil deposit in Iraq who will get access
China?
Russia?

France and Germany as before. Who is out side Iraq that would be in if we lost out?

That is who is financing it.

[drblack]

09:28 PM on 08/29/2007

Of course FARA doesn't apply to the pro-Isreal lobby as it should.
Iraq is a bad end waiting to happen. How many more American lives will be thrown away on this mess?
Why did we not fight against the Taliban and Bin Laden ? I guess because Bush and his supporters are idiots ....only a moron could think that Iraq has something to do with 9-11; or a watcher of Fox news, O'really? or LimpBOG.

[gakabani]

10:38 AM on 08/29/2007

We need to very careful with these people. Corruption runs in their veins. As a puppet Alawi is just a pathetic human being.

[Colmore]

10:34 AM on 08/29/2007

My money is on Chalabi (with Cheney's backing) He was one of the ones pushing for the invasion of Iraq. Cheney wanted him in the government. He is as crooked as our administration, so naturally the all admire him. Never mind what the Iraqui people want, they are as insignificant as taxpayers in this country. Just read that Rove is in NOLA with Georgie. Did his family move there, or is that Jeff Gannon's home base? Why are we still paying his expenses?

[getoffmedz]

08:27 AM on 08/29/2007

Whose paying? You and I.

Bush now wants $50B more for Iraq.

Is there no way to stop this crap?

[Macready]

08:59 AM on 08/29/2007

this crap has to stop . . . and just watch congress will give him a blank check .. . what the hell is wrong with these guys -- are they all arrogant jerks, have they been blackmailed .. . do they have shares in the big oil companies . . . are they just as nuts as the chimp and co ... what . . . this is not a functioning government . . . and that is an understatement

[Macready]

06:28 AM on 08/29/2007

The WHite House probably . .. or someone closely connected to it . .. corruption inc

[scooperss]

08:01 AM on 08/29/2007

Yep yep yep.

[Captain EdwardGraham]

08:17 AM on 08/29/2007

US troops die every day to keep this jerk in power? How dumb can Amerikans be?

08/29/07 MNF: MNC-I Soldier targeted during combat operations - 1 Soldier killed
One Multi-National Corps – Iraq Soldier died of wounds suffered during combat operations in the vicinity of Kirkuk Aug. 28.

08/28/07 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
Lance Cpl. Rogelio A. Ramirez, 21, of Pasadena, Calif., died Aug. 26 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k36GEOEkcgo&mode=related&search= US soldiers horse assing around;

[Bintdeeb]

02:21 PM on 08/29/2007

Corruption, Inc. indeed, in everything it touches. BGR was at the core of a successful coordinated political effort that went all the way to the WH to reverse the federal acknowledgment of one of the country's oldest American Indian tribe. See:
http://indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414946 and http://indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414950
Undoing a small Indian tribe from its rightful sovereignty as a federally acknowledged tribal nation is, I suppose, chump change compared to undoing the (puppet) president of what was once a sovereign nation in favor of another (puppet) president, but the underlying principle is the same -- greed and power.