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'''David Wurmser''' replaced [[Eric Edelman]] as Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs in the Office of Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] in early September 2003, after Edelman was named Ambassador to Turkey. [http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_more/86_0_15_0_M/] [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/24997.htm]
Wurmser, a [[neo-conservative]], previously served as a "special assistant" to [[John R. Bolton]] at the State Department[http://www.hargravepublishing.com/IraqWar.htm] and was a former research fellow on the Middle East at the [[American Enterprise Institute]] (AEI) [http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/wurmser_d/wurmser-d.php].
==Longtime supporter of Chalabi's Iraq National Congress==
"Washington has no choice now but to abandon the coup option and resurrect the INC. An insurgency may be able to defeat Saddam's weak and demoralized conventional army. But one thing is clear: there is no cost-free way to depose Saddam. He is more resolute, wily, and brutal than we. His strength lies in his weapons of terror; that is why he is so attached to them. The week-long interruption in U.N. inspections gave him ample time to prepare his biological capability for use. Organizing an insurgency to liberate Iraq under the INC may provoke Saddam to use his weapons on the way down. Better that, though, than current policy, which will lead him to use them on his way back up,"he concluded.[http://www.aei.org/news/newsID.8361/news_detail.asp]
The following year he co-signed a letter with Perle promoting an insurgency in Iraq and support for the [[Ahmad Chalabi]]-led [[Iraqi National Congress]] (INC).
==Allegations of Espionage==
On September 4, 2004, the ''Washington Post'' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60497-2004Sep3.html reported] that FBI counterintelligence investigators had questioned David Wurmser, along with Harold Rhode, [[Paul Dundes Wolfowitz]] and Douglas Feith about their involvement in passing classified information to Ahmad Chalabi and/or the [[American Israel Public Affairs Committee]] (AIPAC).
==Background==
Wurmser has written extensively (books and articles) on the Middle East. His credits include: ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', ''Wall Street Journal Europe'', ''[[Washington Times]]'', the ''[[Weekly Standard]]'', ''[[New Republic]]'', ''[[SAIS Review]]'', ''[[Middle East Quarterly]]'', ''[[Perspectives on Political Science]]'', ''Strategic Review'', ''Jobs & Capital'', and ''[[The World and I]]''.
David Wurmser is married to Israeli -born [[Meyrav Wurmser]], who co-authored a 1996 report by a task force convened by the IASPS and headed by Perle, called the 'Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000'.
The paper, called ''[http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm]'', was directed to incoming Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Among other steps, the report called for Israeli sponsorship of attacks on Syrian territory by "[[Israeli proxy forces]]" based in Lebanon and "striking Syrian military targets in Lebanon, and should that prove insufficient, striking at select targets in Syria proper". [http://www.domino.ips.org/ips%5Ceng.nsf/vwWebMainView/2573F507D7766E49C1256DC500747AF9/?OpenDocument][http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1020-10.htm]
Wurmser is a close friend and political ally at the AEI with [[Richard N. Perle]]. Perle wrote the introduction to Wurmser's book "Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat [[Saddam Hussein]]." [http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html]
==Affiliations==
*Director of Research in Strategy and Politics Program, [[Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies]] (Jerusalem) (1996)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html]
*Director of Institutional Grants, [[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]] (1994-96)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html]
*Project Officer, [[United States Institute of Peace]] (1988-94)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html]
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