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Two Detroit men charged as Iraqi spies
reuters.com ^ | 4-18-2007 | staff writer

Posted on 04/18/2007 10:22:44 AM PDT by bedolido

DETROIT (Reuters) - Two men from the Detroit area have been charged with spying for executed Iraq leader Saddam Hussein's intelligence service, according to federal court documents.

Najib Shemami and Ghazi Al-Awadi were indicted for giving the former government information about its enemies in the United States, and were freed on $10,000 bonds each after appearing in U.S. District Court in Detroit on Tuesday.

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1 posted on 04/18/2007 10:22:48 AM PDT by bedolido
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To: bedolido

only two?


2 posted on 04/18/2007 10:23:03 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: bedolido

Freed on bond?


3 posted on 04/18/2007 10:24:06 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: bedolido

They were gone in 60 seconds.


4 posted on 04/18/2007 10:24:39 AM PDT by blu (All grammar and punctuation rules are *OFF* for the "24" thread.)
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To: bedolido

Freed. Only only $10K! Unbelievable!


5 posted on 04/18/2007 10:24:46 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: bedolido
and were freed on $10,000 bonds each after appearing in U.S. District Court in Detroit on Tuesday.

Spying is only worth a Ten grand bond??? What???

6 posted on 04/18/2007 10:25:07 AM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: bedolido

Spies should be executed. But so should be terrorists. Since we aren’t executing the latter, why expect any harder punishment for the first.


7 posted on 04/18/2007 10:27:29 AM PDT by SolidWood (Islam is an insanity cult that makes everyone act Arab)
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To: Paperdoll

Freed. Only only $10K! Unbelievable!


Your ultra-liberal judicial system at work, the same system that denies we are AT WAR WITH ISLAM.


8 posted on 04/18/2007 10:29:28 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

It gets worse! Why was this guy left in this country?

From the article!

Al-Awadi, who has been in the United States since 1974 and lives on Social Security, was paroled from the Michigan Department of Corrections in 1996, after serving six years for manslaughter in the stabbing of his son-in-law.


9 posted on 04/18/2007 10:30:47 AM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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lives on Social Security

I quit.

10 posted on 04/18/2007 10:32:54 AM PDT by johniegrad
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Amazing isn’t it?


11 posted on 04/18/2007 10:34:53 AM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: bedolido
More on these two on Debbie Schlussel's site:

http://www.debbieschlussel.com

Saddam-era Iraqi intelligence played a huge role in the Oklahoma City federal building bombing in 1995 (see Jayna Davis, The Third Terrorist (Nashville, TN: WND Books, 2004).

12 posted on 04/18/2007 10:40:10 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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From the names of these guys and the Iraqi spy just convicted in Chicago, I suspect they are Assyrian Christians, as was Tariq Aziz. Most left after WWI and headed West. Those who remained often were closely aligned with Hussein’a Baathist party.


13 posted on 04/18/2007 10:48:11 AM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: bedolido

WTF???? Spies out on bond? It takes a village idiot to conduct war in this manner!


14 posted on 04/18/2007 10:53:49 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Compromise with Islam means you will submit to them killing you!)
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To: bedolido
"...and were freed on $10,000 bonds..."

We'll never see them again.

15 posted on 04/18/2007 11:03:06 AM PDT by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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To: the Real fifi

According to Debbie Schlussel’s blog, one is a Muslim, the other a Christian.


16 posted on 04/18/2007 11:04:08 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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Aha—So the Chicago one probably was Chaldean(Christian) and one of the two Detroit guys was, too. Just a reminder that all this is not jihadi madness,but standard state intel and we cannot ignore that.


17 posted on 04/18/2007 11:08:48 AM PDT by the Real fifi
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As already pointed out one is Christian one is Muslim.
“Ghazi Al-Awadi” is definately a Muslim name.

Anyway whether “Jihadi” or “Baathi”... both are enemies and as spies they have to be punished harshly.


18 posted on 04/18/2007 11:18:44 AM PDT by SolidWood (Islam is an insanity cult that makes everyone act Arab)
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To: the Real fifi
In Saddam's Iraq, there was no line of separation between "jihadi madness" and "standard state intel."

Please see my post # 12.

19 posted on 04/18/2007 11:19:12 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: VaBthang4

If they dont show I want that prosecutor and Judge thrown in jail.


20 posted on 04/18/2007 11:20:46 AM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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