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Boxwood, Inc. Here's an update to today's very interesting Chalabi news.
Here's some registration info on the INC-linked company Boxwood Inc. headed by long-time INC advisor Francis Brooke. As reported today in the Post and in an earlier W&P post, among Boxwood's directors are fugitive INC intelligence chief Aras Habib Karim and Margaret Bartel.
[For the sake of having it from first hand sources, here's a list of the company's principals, from the Commonwealth of Virginia's State Corporate Commission:
DATE 12/12/03
CORPORATE NAME: Boxwood Inc.
OFFICERS/DIRECTORS:
FRANCIS BROOKE PRESIDENT
MARGARET BARTEL DIRECTOR
ARAS KAREEM DIRECTOR
Here's the corporate registry info:
Name: BOXWOOD INC.
Corporate ID Number: 589920
Filing State: VA
Type: DOMESTIC CORPORATION
Status: ACTIVE
Date of Incorporation: 01-16-2003
Address Type: REG. AGENT ADDRESS
Name: MARGARET BARTEL
Address: 911 DUKE ST
ALEXANDRIA, VA 22314
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Name: BOXWOOD INC.
Corporate ID Number: R145444
Filing State: VA
Type: NAME RESERVATION - CORPORATE
Status: ACTIVE
Corporation Dissolved: 05-13-2003
Address Type: REG. AGENT ADDRESS
Name: BOXWOOD INC
Address: 3743 WINFIELD LANE NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20007
A few notes here:
The Winfield Lane address appears to be Brooke's Georgetown residence. Jane Mayer reports in a recent New Yorker that "Brooke, his wife, Sharon, and their children live for free in the [Georgetown] town house, which is owned by Levantine Holdings, a Chalabi family corporation based in Luxembourg."
In addition to Mayer's report, property records for 3743 Winfield Lane show that it is indeed owned by Levantine Holdings:
Address: 3743 WINFIELD LA NW...
Owner and Sales Information
Owner Name: LEVANTINE HOLDINGS SA
A search for Levantine Holdings shows that it is registered at:
LEVANTINE HOLDINGS SA
Mailing Address: 2544 28TH ST NW;
WASHINGTON, DC 20008-2744
in the Woodley Park/Mass Ave neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
A search for who owns the property at 2544 28th Street NW turns up someone named Mohsen A. Khalil "et al."
Owner Name: MOHSEN A KHALIL ET AL
Mailing Address: 2544 28TH ST NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20008-2744
Who is Mohsen Khalil?
Mohsen Khalil is a joint Director at the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the Global Information and Communication Technologies Department, one of the first Global Product Groups formed out of the integration of the World Bank and IFC. In this capacity, Mr. Khalil is in charge of all the World Bank Group’s activities in the area of telecommunications and information technologies world wide. This would involve advisory work to governments on sector reforms, regulatory frameworks and institutional capacity building, in addition to supporting private investments in developing countries.
Prior to this appointment, he was Director of IFC's Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa Department. He has also served IFC as Chief Investment Officer in the Telecommunications, Transport, and Utilities Department . . .
Before joining the World Bank Group, while also serving as Professor of Business at the American University of Beirut, Mr. Khalil served as Chief Advisor to the Lebanese Minister of Post and Telecommunications, Board Director of Lebanon's Autonomous Fund for Housing, and advisor to various governments and major corporations in the Gulf. He also worked with McKinsey & Co. Management Consultants, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and MITRE Corporation.
Mr. Khalil holds a M.Sc. from MIT Sloan School of Management, a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California . . . and a B.Sc. in physics from the American University of Beirut.
Very interesting. Among other interesting things, Dr. Khalil appears to be among the most important people at the World Bank and the supreme leader of the Bank's global telecommunications work. My my, Dr. Chalabi appears to have friends in high places all over the place.
Dr. Khalil also appears to originally be from Lebanon, where Chalabi is reported to have lived with his family after fleeing Iraq in the 1950s, and where he reportedly married a Lebanese woman. [Indeed, a recent UPI article alleges that one of Chalabi's brothers works in Beirut as an agent of the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS), for what it's worth.]
It's also worth noting that, according to property records, Dr. Khalil is enjoying a "homestead deduction" tax benefit for people who reside in the homes they purchase. In other words, according to the tax benefits he has claimed, Dr. Khalil is not renting the property to someone else [such as the Chalabi-linked Levantine Holdings SA], but is living there as his primary residence himself.
What is Khalil's relationship to Ahmad Chalabi and his family, who are presumably the "et al"?
[Immense thx to RS for the registry and incorporation info, which I cited at tedious length here because it's not available online without various subscriptions and fees.].
Addendum: Khalil appears to be a fairly common name. But it's worth noting that Chalabi does have a niece, Sarah Khalil, who briefly worked for the New York Times in Baghdad. Could Khalil be the maiden name of Chalabi's Lebanese-born wife? Or the daughter of one of his sisters, (married to a Lebanese?)