Aras Habib
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Aras Habib is an Iraqi-Feyli Kurdish businessman, politician and a colonel in the Free Iraqi Fighters, the long-term director of intelligence for Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress (INC). He is know for his pro-western and secular policies, and enjoys close relationship with USA, France, Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan.
Aras Habib | |
|---|---|
| Allegiance |  Iraq |
| Service |  Iraqi Ground Forces |
| Rank | Politician and Colonel |
| Unit | Free Iraqi Fighters |
He may have been the man in charge of the INC’s quest to hunt down former high-level Ba’athists in Iraq, using Ba'athist Party archives they had seized; in this area information relayed to US-led forces proved far more reliable than the inferences of weapons of mass destruction that had lured the US into Iraq. Chalabi's Pentagon connection, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, decided to close off funding following emerging disclosures that some of Chalabi's INC aides supplied sensitive information about U.S. security operations in Baghdad to the Iranian government.
After the US Pentagon's public break with Chalabi surface, a warrant for Aras Habib's arrest was released but not executed. He remains at large.