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Chicago Jury to See Iraqi Intelligence Papers
2004-01-08
Intelligence documents shown to a federal jury on Wednesday portray a newspaper publisher in the Chicago area as starved for cash and eager to spy on opponents of Saddam Hussein.
Shoot him. That's what Sammy would have done.
The publisher, Khaled Dumeisi, is accused of spying on critics of the Iraqi government living in the United States and giving the information to the Iraqi intelligence service. "He stated that he owes approximately $15,000 accumulated on account of the newspaper," says one memorandum, part of a file given to an American counterintelligence officer in Baghdad.
They found his Mukhabarat file. According to the government, Dumeisi traveled to Iraq to learn the trade of spying, passed on phone records and other sensitive material about Iraqi dissidents, produced news credentials for Iraqi intelligence officers, and alerted his spy handlers to Hussein opponents who phoned in complaints to Dumeisi’s newspaper because of coverage favorable to Hussein’s regime.
Mr. Dumeisi is charged with failing to register as an Iraqi agent, conspiracy not to register, lying to a federal grand jury and lying to an immigration officer. Judge Suzanne Conlon of Federal District Court allowed the Baghdad papers into evidence, saying three pages were identified "as being in the defendant’s own handwriting."
Oops! The secret police kept everything he sent them.
He is not charged with espionage, a crime that involves theft of classified American defense secrets but not spying on dissidents. There are no accusations that Mr. Dumeisi was involved in terrorism.
Close enough.
Posted by:Steve

#2  The secret police kept everything he sent them.

They're funny that way, aren't they? Every secret police ever in business did the same.
Posted by: Steve White   2004-1-8 1:39:50 PM  

#1  Nah, don't shoot him, just make sure the jury knows what Sammy would have done.
Posted by: Steve White   2004-1-8 1:38:25 PM  

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