OCTOBER 2, 2000 : (CHICAGO, IL : IRAQI SPY "SIRHAN'S" aka DUMEISI'S NEWSPAPER AL MAHJAR CO-SPONSORS ANTI-ISRAEL DEMONSTRATION, ALONG WITH AAAN {see MONA KHALIDI} , AAI, IAP, ETC) The spy also runs this newspaper: "AL MAHJAR NEWSPAPER" Type of activity: Newspaper, media & marketing Address: 6000 W. 79th Street, , Burbank, Illinois- 60459 , USA
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www.abunimah.org54 posted on 07/09/2003 11:02 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
October 2, 2000
ONE THOUSAND PROTESTORS MARCH ON ISRAELI CONSULTATE IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO-October 2--About one thousand Palestinians and supporters marched on the Israeli consulate in downtown Chicago this evening, to protest the ongoing massacre of Palestinians, which to date has claimed more than fifty lives, and injured more than 1,200, as Israeli troops continue to attack civilians with helicopters, rockets and live ammunition.
The number of people who attended the rally far exceeded organizers' expectations, as numerous buses and vans and private cars brought men, women and children of every age from different parts of Chicago and the suburbs.
Demonstrators gathered at Tribune Plaza, on Michigan Avenue, a main Chicago thoroughfare beginning at 4.30PM. Activists passed flyers to passersby, and demonstrators carried signs with slogans like "52 Years of Massacres is Enough," "How many children need to die?," and "Sharon=War Criminal."
As the crowd increased in size, chants went up in Arabic and English. Echoing the cries of their compatriots in Palestine, demonstrators chanted in Arabic, "With spirit, with blood we will sacrifice for you Palestine." English chants included, "Free Free Palestine!"
Led by young people carrying Palestinian flags, marchers headed south from Tribune Plaza across Michigan Avenue bridge, towards the Israeli consulate building. Original plans had called for a rally in front of the consulate, with speeches by community leaders. But because the demonstration was so large it was decided to keep the march going in a large loop in order to prevent people surging forward and being pushed against police barricades. Many protestors were emotional and grief-stricken. Chants came to a halt as protestors sat on the ground for a minute of silence in memory of Palestinian martyrs.
Twenty children from Chicago's Palestinian community, donned white T-shirts and lay on the road in front of the Israeli consulate. They were then sprayed with red paint to symbolize their solidarity with Palestinian children killed and injured by occupation forces.
An elderly Palestinian woman, who gave her name as Ferdaws, approached a group of non-Palestinian supporters with tears in her eyes, and said, "I want to thank you for coming to march with us today. We want to show the world that what they say about us is not true, we are not killers and terrorists." Ferdaws said that her father and sister had been killed in an Israeli attack on her village near Betunia, in the occupied West Bank in 1968.
This evening's demonstration received widespread coverage in local media, leading the Channel 2 (CBS) evening news, which reported that, "palestinians say they rallied today to better educate their neighbors and colleagues about the violence in their homeland." Fox TV (Channel 32), WGN TV (Channel 9) and several local radio stations also had reports. In addition, reporters from The Chicago Tribune and other newspapers were present.
Earlier in the day Ali Abunimah and the Israeli Consul-General Tzipora Rimon appeared on WBEZ Radio for a full hour fielding calls from listeners. (The Worldview program is archived at http://www.wbez.org)
The demonstration was co-sponsored by: Arab American Action Network, Al-Awda Chicago, Al-Mahjar, Arab American Institute, Arab American View Newspaper, Al-Quds TV, Committee for a Democratic Palestine, Friday Magazine, Friday Radio, Islamic Association for Palestine, Guild of Palestinian Writers and Journalists in North America, United Arab Networking, American Friends Service Committee, Eighth Day Center for Justice, Hammerhard Mediaworks, Southwest Youth Collaborative.
The protest in Chicago was one amongst many being held cities around the world as international condemnation of Israel's crimes grows.
Ali Abunimah
ali@abunimah.org
http://www.abunimah
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JUNE 2002 : (ONE OF "SIRHAN'S" aka [AL MAHJAR PUBLISHER] DUMEISI'S 4 CONTACTS AT IRAQ'S UN MISSION IS EXPELLED ON SUSPICION OF SPYING) FBI agents said Dumeisi was in contact with four people at Iraq's United Nations mission who were actually intelligence officers. One of the four was expelled from the country by the State Department in June 2002 on suspicion of spying, the FBI said. ------- from http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2321258/detail.html
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JULY 9, 2003 Wednesday : (ILLINOIS : KHALED ABDEL-LATIF DUMEISI aka "SIRHAN" IS ARRESTED FOR SERVING AS AN UNREGISTERED AGENT OF IRAQ'S BAATHIST REGIME - HIS DOSSIER WAS FOUND BY THE INC IN IRAQ) A suburban Oak Lawn [suburban Chicago] man was arrested Wednesday on charges of serving as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's government, including spying on opposition leaders for Iraqi intelligence, federal officials announced. Khaled Abdel-Latif Dumeisi, 60, was arrested based on a dossier found in Baghdad in April and turned over to the FBI.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement that Dumeisi had furnished information to Iraqi intelligence without registering as a foreign agent. "Those who gather information in the United States about people living in America for the purpose of providing the information to hostile governments should understand that the FBI will pursue them vigorously," Fitzgerald said.
Federal law requires anyone acting as an agent of a foreign government who is not a member of that country's diplomatic service to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent. Dumeisi never did so, federal officials said.
They said members of the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition group, discovered a dossier in a Baghdad safehouse run by Iraq's intelligence service in the days when Saddam's regime was crumbling.
---------- "Oak Lawn man accused of spying for Saddam," BY MIKE ROBINSON ASSOCIATED PRESS , Chicago Sun-Times , July 9, 2003
Yet only 6% of American jews will vote for McCain.