The Prince of Darkness Cashes In

Richard Perle the eminence gris of the Zionist neocon world, co-author of the report Clean Break published by an Israeli think-tank that advocated protecting Israel by deposing Saddam Hussein and thereby reordering the Middle East, spent a decade lobbying for war. He is credited for his strenuous efforts as the architect of the Iraq war, and now he is cashing in on the privatization of Iraq's oil industry as a result of it. According to the Wall Street Journal, Perle has been discussing a possible deal with officials of northern Iraq's Kurdistan regional government. The negotiations concern a tract near the Kurdistan city of Erbil. It is not the first time Perle has business interests benefiting from the Iraq conflict. He was a director of Autonomy Corporation, a UK firm selling sophisticated eavesdropping software to intelligence agencies including Italian intelligence, US Homeland Security, NSA and DIA. Perle was forced to resign his post as chairman of the influential Defense Policy Board in 2003 because of allegations that his company would profit from the war. Autonomy Corporation recruited Perle shortly before the neocons took office in 2000.