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| Anti-War "Activist" in Court, Accused of Spying for Saddam Hussein |
| 2008-06-18 |
| But don't question her patriotismÂ…. She rolled her eyes. She stuck her tongue out at the prosecutor. It was decidedly not the usual courtroom demeanor. Then again, it was not the usual federal case. Nor did it did stop the woman, a former journalist and Congressional aide, from trying to persuade a judge that she was mentally competent and prepared to stand trial on charges that she worked with the Iraqi intelligence services before the United States invasion. The woman, Susan P. Lindauer, was taken into custody in March 2004 and charged with acting as an unregistered agent of Saddam HusseinÂ’s government under an indictment in Manhattan. She was accused of meeting repeatedly with Iraqi intelligence officers starting in 1999, including once at the Al Rashid Hotel in Baghdad, where prosecutors say she received $5,000 from Iraqi agents. |
| Posted by:Icerigger |