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| 6 Iraqi "secret agents" nabbed |
| 2003-03-28 |
| Six Iraqis in two foreign countries have been arrested in the midst of planning terrorist attacks on U.S. interests, Fox News learned Friday. The plots have been foiled and the terrorist material, i.e. explosives, were confiscated, State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher said. "The planned attacks were not successful," Boucher said, adding that many Iraqi intelligence service members abroad continue to be a threat. They were so clumsy last time around that all their Mahmoud Bonds get snagged, too... In one country, four people were arrested and in the other country, two were arrested. One of the six arrests was yesterday; the others were spread out over the "last few days." The arrests were carried out by local law-enforcement authorities, not Americans. The individuals, identified as members of the Iraqi Intelligence Service operating under diplomatic cover, were said to still be in the planning stages of attack. According to officials, if executed, the attacks would have caused "serious damage." In one country, which officials decline to name for fear that they would tip off Iraqi agents under investigation in other cases, Iraqi terrorists had been planning to hit a U.S. embassy. In another country, the Iraqis had not identified a final target, but among its target set were private, non-governmental organizations. They said on Fox News teevee that the countries were Jordan and Yemen... Sources told Fox News that U.S. intelligence officials are "pretty damn certain" that the agents were working directly for Saddam Hussein since they were Iraqi nationals operating with diplomatic cover. They said in some cases, the Iraqi intelligence agents were primary over the Iraqi ambassadors stationed in those countries. "They outranked their ambassador, in effect," one official said. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Maybe these other countries will figure it out that the US was serious when we told them to kick out those Iraqi "diplomats" over the past 2 weeks. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2003-03-28 21:15:28 |