Iraqi elections rigged
New Yorker
by Seymour Hersh
07/18/05
By then, the men in charge of the C.I.A. were 'dying to help out, and make sure the election went the right way,' the recently retired C.I.A. official recalled. It was known inside the intelligence community, he added, that the Iranians and others were providing under-the-table assistance to various factions. The concern, he said, was that 'the bad guys would win'...
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050725fa_fact
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Seymour Hersh
07/18/05
By then, the men in charge of the C.I.A. were 'dying to help out, and make sure the election went the right way,' the recently retired C.I.A. official recalled. It was known inside the intelligence community, he added, that the Iranians and others were providing under-the-table assistance to various factions. The concern, he said, was that 'the bad guys would win'...
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050725fa_fact
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 20. Jul, 13:57