MARTIAL LAW

Emergency law mooted for Iraq’s new ‘democracy’

Iraq’s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi -- an ex CIA man with close links to the US and a relative of the convicted embezzler and alleged Iranian-paid spook Ahmad Chalabi --has appointed a ministerial panel to study whether Iraqis should be subjected to curfews and bans on public demonstrations after the June 30 handover. If Iraqis wake up to emergency law on July 1, instead of the promised and much vaunted “freedom and democracy”, the move will surely symbolize America’s failed policies in the region like no other.
Another of Allawi's relatives, Salem Chalabi is heading the tribunal set up to try Saddam and former members of his government currently in US-run jails.
Salem Chalabi has close business links with Marc Zell, a partner in Zell, Goldberg & Co., which claims to be one of Israel’s fastest-growing business-oriented law firms.
Zell is a marketing consultant for Salem’s Baghdad-based law outfit was formerly a partner in the same law firm as rabid pro-Zionist Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith — a founder member of the right-wing think tank Project for a New American Century and one of the main cheerleaders for the invasion.

[PNAC uncovered. Further reading]