Iraq: Overdoing Chalabi

On Feb. 19, in a piece titled “Ahmed Chalabi and His Iranian Connection,” Stratfor laid out the close relationship Chalabi had with the Iranians, and the role that relationship played in the flow of intelligence to Washington prior to the war. This week, the story of Chalabi, accused of being an Iranian agent by U.S. intelligence, was all over the front pages of the newspapers. The media, having ignored Chalabi’s Iranian connections for so long, went to the other extreme — substantially overstating its significance....