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Developing scandal threatens to make current scandal old hat

The Guardian reports Iranian intelligence used Ahmed Chalabi as the bow to play the US like a fiddle:

An urgent investigation has been launched in Washington into whether Iran played a role in manipulating the US into the Iraq war by passing on bogus intelligence through Ahmad Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress, it emerged yesterday.

Some intelligence officials now believe that Iran used the hawks in the Pentagon and the White House to get rid of a hostile neighbour, and pave the way for a Shia-ruled Iraq.

GOP chairman Ed Gillespie: "Shiv Nadar!"

The Hindustan Times (always on to my bedside stand, under Robert’s Rules of Order, of course) reports the oh-so-embarassing details of the RNC outsourcing some of its fundraising calls in 2002-03:

For 14 months between May 16, 2002 and July 22, 2003, HCL BPO Services ? the 100 per cent-owned subsidiary of Shiv Nadar-promoted HCL Technologies ? had some 125 agents working in seven teams soliciting financial contributions for the Republican Party. US presidential elections are slated for November 2004.

Fat people irked with soft rocker

It appears poet laureate Jewel, heiress to the Jewel/Osco fortune, turned in a controversial performance at the Hampton Beach Ballroom Casino. Via Can’t Stop the Bleeding via someone named Brian Turner:

HAMPTON - Gloria Dion wants her money back after being subjected to what she calls the worst Jewel concert ever.

… "People were literally walking out of the show," she said. "As soon as she came out, she began to insult us. We thought she was joking at first because it was kind of weird."

Witnesses said Jewel went on a tirade of insults from poking fun at fat people to others with no teeth. At one point, she asked the audience to yell requests and then told them to "shut the hell up."

"I saw her live in Boston and it was the greatest show I?ve ever been to," Dion said. "I don?t know if she was having a nervous breakdown or what. She told everyone to stop looking at her teeth and look at her breasts."

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