Agent of Saddam Arrested in Chicago

FoxNews - cable ^ | July 9, 2003

[TomGuy]

FoxNews just reported that an agent for Saddam Hussein has been arrested in Chicago.

.....developing....

[Dog]

It just broke on MSNBC...

[Go Gordon]

agent for Saddam Hussein has been arrested

What sport does Saddam play?

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[William McKinley]

Dick Durbin?

[Dog]

You don't miss a thread....

[Thinkin' Gal]

This agent could use a map. Hollywood is on the left coast.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Here's a little more:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=513&ncid=718&e=6&u=/ap/20030709/ap_on_go_ot/iraqi_arrest

[Chad Fairbanks]

Dissident-Head Soccer?

[Frank_Discussion]

Hide and Seek, apparently.

[Catspaw]

Chicago Sun-Times Oak Lawn man accused of spying for Saddam July 9, 2003 BY MIKE ROBINSON ASSOCIATED PRESS   A suburban Oak Lawn 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. More to come   Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

[Dog]

By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man was arrested Wednesday on charges of serving as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s government, including spying on opposition leaders for Iraqi intelligence, federal officials said.



Khaled Abdel-Latif Dumeisi, 60, of Oak Lawn was arrested based on a dossier found in Baghdad in April and turned over to the FBI (news - web sites).


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 (news - web sites) 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 (news - web sites)'s intelligence service in the days when Saddam's regime was crumbling.

[Puppage]

[hoosiermama]

BUMP

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Excellent news! One down, who knows how many more to go! Go get them Feds!

[The G Man]

Jerry McGwire?

[Dog]

Seems the files are starting to pay off...

Khaled Abdel-Latif Dumeisi, 60, of Oak Lawn was arrested based on a dossier found in Baghdad in April and turned over to the FBI (news - web sites).

Rolling up the moles bump!!!!!

[Blood of Tyrants]

I hear his favorite is "Lions vs. Christians" (or anyone else he doesn't like).

[facedown]

ping

[Pest]

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement that Dumeisi had furnished information to Iraqi intelligence without registering as a foreign agent.

So it would have been OK if he had been registered?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Hide and Seek, apparently.

IMHO, he's in the stolen/hijacked 727. The plane was reported to have made a stop in Beruit.

[gathersnomoss]

A two step process should now occur. First, bleed him for info. Next, test his flying skills by dropping him from the tallest building in town.

[Frank_Discussion]

Hmmm... Interesting theory, I must say. Ya never know what the SOB is going to do.

[m1-lightning]

Ping!

[Chi-townChief]

I was hoping that it was Bobby Rush.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

ARLI$$?

[habs4ever]

I bet everyone thought he just ran a gyro and falafel shop ;-)

[VRWC_minion]

Arrested or captured ?

[mass55th]

"Dick Durbin?"

I was thinking maybe Jim McDermott.

[aBootes]

A suburban Chicago man was arrested Wednesday on charges of serving as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein

We make foreign spies register now? Weird.

[Pest]

We make foreign spies register now? Weird.

Along with illegal aliens and homeless beggers.

[William McKinley]

You are right, much more likely. But alas, it was neither.

[glock rocks]

SFR is an android.

[RonF]

WTF does this have to do with Daley?

[RonF]

Remember that due to 9/11/01, the tallest building in town is now the tallest building in the U.S. And depending on your definition of building height, the tallest in the world.

[Chi-townChief]

Sears Tower was always taller than the WTC.

[Mo1]

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement that Dumeisi had furnished information to Iraqi intelligence without registering as a foreign agent.

I'm confused .. when did spies have to start registering?

[glock rocks]

The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FAR A) of 1938 requires foreign agents to disclose their connections with foreign governments, foreign political parties, and other foreign principals to the Foreign Agents Registration Unit at the Department of Justice.

[Puppage]

Agent of Saddam? Daley...Hitler-like? Joke? Sarcasm?

Get it?

Or, are you just SO SERIOUS that it fails to register?

[hoosiermama]

If they register they're 'sharing'cultural differences. If they don't register they as spying! /sarcasm

[Mo1]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh .. got it .. thanks

[Catspaw]

Wasn't the Sears Tower evacuated on 9/11?

[Humidston]

Am I missing something or does it appear to all of you as well that ALL of these foreign agents are being routed from small towns near major cities???

[Chi-townChief]

Yes. I think the panic here was greater than in NYC.

[Darkshadow]

Book Agent?

[Catspaw]

After seeing what happened in New York--and in DC--I'd be panicked, too, and want to get away from there as soon as I could. And I do believe that the Sears Tower was on the possible target list.

Thinking of that day brings back some terrifying memories.

[Catspaw]

I think Chi-townChief can describe it better, but I consider Oak Lawn IL to be a 'burb of Chicago, not a separate small town.

[Mo1]

I believe so .. I also recall stories being reported of video tapes of the Sears building being found

[Humidston]

Ok. Suburb. Same difference IMO.... It just seems to me these "sleepers" are always found out in "sleeper" communities or small villages near metropolitan cities.

Maybe I'm forgetting or maybe I'm paranoid, but my feeling of security (for being outside Houston) is failing. ;-/

[hoosiermama]

SO what do they do with him now? Slap his hands and send him home!