The New York Times is reporting that the new appointed Iraqi prime minister, Iyad Allawi, helped the CIA carry out a series of bombings in Iraq during the 1990s including possibly one attack that targeted a movie theater filled with civilians. The CIA worked with Allawi’s exile organization the Iraqi National Accord to sabotage Saddam Hussein’s government. The Times based its report on interviews with former CIA officials who gave conflicting accounts of how effective and how lethal the attacks were. Allawi, who also has ties to British and Saudi intelligence, is not believed to have ever spoken publicly about the terror campaign. But one former member of the Iraqi National Accord came forward in 1996 and described himself as the group’s chief bombmaker and he admitted carrying out attacks.