Christina Davidson at IraqSlogger, who broke the story that influential GOP lobbying firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers are promoting Iraqi parliamentarian Ayad Allawi to be the new prime minister, has another scoop. On Monday, BGR president Robert Blackwill — President Bush’s former Iraq coordinator at the White House — signed a contract with Allawi worth $300,000 over six months to provide “strategic counsel” for the would-be-premier “before the US Government, Congress, media and others.”
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