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By the mid-1990s, he started up a relationship with the CIA, from whom he wanted backing for a coup against Saddam Hussein. According to Ignatius, the agency liked the idea and gave the plot the ill-starred code name "DBACHILLES."
However, after being denied air support by the Americans, the would-be coup in 1996 was broken by Saddam. Allawi might have exaggerated his influence among Iraqi officers. After all, his is a long record of telling tall tales.
Last December, he provided the press with an Iraqi intelligence memo that supposedly connected 9/11 mastermind Muhammad Atta to Saddam Hussein. The document, which was picked up by the London Daily Telegraph and New York Times columnist William Safire, had placed Atta at a terrorist training camp in Iraq in June 2001.
However, Atta was crisscrossing the US at the time.
Allawi was also responsible for talk of Iraq buying uranium from Niger and for the British government's erroneous claim that Saddam Hussein could ready his weapons of mass destruction to fire within "45 minutes."