JULY 30, 2003 : (SUSAN LINDHAUER HAS PHONE CONVERSATION WITH MUTHANNA AL-HANOOTI, PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTHFIELD MICHIGAN GROUP 'FOCUS ON AMERICAN AND ARAB INTERESTS AND RELATIONS' aka FAAIR; See also TERROR CHARITIES, LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT, HAMAS ) To demonstrate her commitment to nonviolence, Lindauer also shared with me portions of the evidentiary material contained on a stack of compact disks turned over to her by the government.
The evidence against her, which includes wiretapped conversations with friends, neighbors, foreign diplomats and fellow activists, is currently in the hands of her new court-appointed attorney, who was not representing Lindauer at the time I spoke to her. Among the documents Lindauer showed me was a transcript of a telephone conversation with Muthanna al-Hanooti, the president of Focus on American and Arab Interests and Relations, a nonprofit organization in Southfield, Mich., dated July 30, 2003, two days before the Arab-American activist made one of his frequent trips to Iraq.
During the call, Lindauer praised al-Hanooti for being a ''man who believes in peace'' and exhorted him to ''stay with God -- just stay with God.'' As the conversation continued, al-Hanooti seemed to hover between impatience and boredom. ''Other people are doing bad things, and they may try to use you as cover for bad things,'' Lindauer said. ''So don't let them.'' ''It's a very delicate balance, as you know,'' al-Hanooti replied. ''But, ah, we'll do our best, you know. We'll do our best.''
------------Source: "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," ["spy" story -- long, strange], by DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004 Posted on 08/29/2004 12:38:16 PM PDT by 68skylark
Thanks. I didn't remember that little remembrance.
So we have Susan Lindhauer chattin' it up with Life for Relief and Development's al Hanooti... but she was also receiving money from the Iraqi Intelligence Service via the Iraqi ambassador's sons, one of whom was evidently plotting to kill an Iraqi expatriate here in the states.
Elsewhere, I found this interesting bit [promise to close your eyes and click your heels together three times while repeating "There is no connection between Iraq and 9/11"] :
1990 : (SUSAN LINDHAUER GOES TO WASHINGTON DC AS A JOURNALIST, THEN BEGINS WORKING AS PRESS SECRETARIES FOR VARIOUS DEMOCRAT CONGRESSCRITTERS) She graduated from Smith in 1985 and then went to the London School of Economics, where she earned a master's degree and developed an interest in the Arab world. In 1990, she went to Washington, where she briefly worked as a journalist and then as a press secretary for liberal Democrats in the House and Senate, including Ron Wyden and Carol Moseley Braun. None of her jobs lasted more than a year. Her most recent job on Capitol Hill, as a press secretary for Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, ended in May 2002. -------- "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004
1995 : (THIS IS WHEN SUSAN LINDHAUER SAYS SHE BEGAN VISITING THE LIBYAN MISSION TO THE UN IN NY) Susan Lindauer said she started making visits to the Libyan Mission to the United Nations in 1995 and started meeting with Iraqis at the United Nations in 1996.-------- "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004
1996 : (THIS IS WHEN SUSAN LINDHAUER SAYS SHE BEGAN VISITING THE IRAQIS AT THE UN)started meeting with Iraqis at the United Nations in 1996.-------- "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004
1999 : (SUSAN LINHAUER BEGINS MEETING WITH IRAQI DIPLOMATS AT THE IRAQI MISSION TO THE UN IN NY) According to the federal charges filed against her by the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Lindauer repeatedly violated U.S. law beginning in 1999 by meeting with Iraqi diplomats at the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations in New York and with agents of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi Intelligence Service (I.I.S.). ----- "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004
NOVEMBER 26, 2000 : (THIS IS WHEN SUSAN LINDHAUER SAYS SHE MET WITH IRAQI AMBASSADOR SAEED HASAN)... what she described as a private Nov. 26, 2000, meeting with Saeed Hasan, then the Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations. ----- "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004
DECEMBER 23, 2000 : (SUSAN LINDHAUER LEAVES A LETTER ADDRESSED TO DICK CHENEY - AND HINTING AT A BRIBE OFFER - FROM AN IRAQI AMBASSADOR SAEED HASAN AT ANDREW CARD'S HOME - HE REPORTS IT) One of Lindauer's earliest notes was left at Card's home on Dec. 23, 2000, a decade after sanctions were imposed on Iraq and a month before George W. Bush took office. Along with some of the transcripts of her wiretapped conversations, Lindauer gave me this letter to support her contention that she was working as a ''back channel'' between the governments of Iraq and the United States. The letter was addressed to Vice President-elect Cheney, and in it Lindauer presented the fruits of what she described as a private Nov. 26, 2000, meeting with Saeed Hasan, then the Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations.
''Ambassador Hasan has asked me to communicate to you that Iraq most vigorously wishes to restore healthy, peaceful relations with the United States, including economic and cultural ties,'' Lindauer wrote. ''At our meeting, Ambassador Hasan demonstrated a pragmatic understanding that the United States requires the reinstatement of weapons monitoring in order to lift the sanctions.'' Ambassador Hasan, she said, had ''also emphasized that Iraq is ready to guarantee critical advantages for U.S. corporations at all levels.'' .------ "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004
2001 summer : (SUSAN LINDHAUER TELLS HER BROTHER THAT THE GULF WAR ISN'T OVER AND THAT "THERE ARE PLANS IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW. THEY WILL BE RAINING DOWN ON US FROM THE SKIES")John Lindauer, Susan's younger brother, is used to his sister's unlikely stories -- about dating Arab arms dealers and late-night attempts on her life and her contacts with the C.I.A. A Harvard graduate, and now a successful commercial and music-video director in Los Angeles, he says he thinks that a strain of playacting and deception runs in his family...One conversation John had with his sister in the summer of 2001 stuck in his mind for a different reason. ''So she goes, 'Listen, the gulf war isn't over,''' he told me over dinner at a sushi place on the Sunset Strip. '''There are plans in effect right now. They will be raining down on us from the skies.''' His sister told him that Lower Manhattan would be destroyed. ''And I was like, Yeah, whatever,'' he continued. When he woke up six weeks later to the news that two planes had crashed into the twin towers, and watched as ash settled on the window ledge of his sublet in Brooklyn, he had a dislocating sense of having his reality replaced by Susan's strange world -- an experience he would have again when he learned that his sister had been arrested by the F.B.I.------ "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004
2001 summer : (SUSAN LINHAUER WARNS PARKE GODFREY NOT TO TAKE A JOB AT NYU) Parke Godfrey, a close friend of Lindauer's for the last 15 years, is a professor of computer science at York University in Ontario. He says that Lindauer warned him not to take a job at N.Y.U. the summer before the Sept. 11 attacks. That Lindauer's outlandish predictions actually came true, Godfrey suggests, further encouraged the exalted sense of personal mission that brought her to Washington in the first place. ....------ "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 : (9/11 ATTACKS)
FEBRUARY 23, 2002 through MARCH 7, 2002 +/- : (SUSAN LINDHAUER WORKS WITH IRAQI OPERATIVES) She was also indicted for accepting money from the Iraqis and traveling to Baghdad, where she met with Iraqi intelligence agents, in violation of federal law. ''From on or about Feb. 23, 2002, through on or about March 7, 2002,'' the indictment charged, ''Susan Lindauer, aka 'Symbol Susan,' met with several I.I.S. officers in Iraq, including at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad, and received cash payments of approximately $5,000.00.''--------- "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004
JULY 2002 :(FBI BEGINS TAPPING SUSAN LINDHAUER'S PHONE?) The F.B.I. first began tapping Lindauer's phone and intercepting her e-mail in July 2002, she said. --------- "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004
JULY 30, 2003 : (SUSAN LINDHAUER HAS PHONE CONVERSATION WITH MUTHANNA AL-HANOOTI, PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTHFIELD MICHIGAN GROUP 'FOCUS ON AMERICAN AND ARAB INTERESTS AND RELATIONS' aka FAAIR; See also TERROR CHARITIES, LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT, HAMAS )Among the documents Lindauer showed me was a transcript of a telephone conversation with Muthanna al-Hanooti, the president of Focus on American and Arab Interests and Relations, a nonprofit organization in Southfield, Mich., dated July 30, 2003, two days before the Arab-American activist made one of his frequent trips to Iraq. During the call, Lindauer praised al-Hanooti for being a ''man who believes in peace'' and exhorted him to ''stay with God -- just stay with God.'' As the conversation continued, al-Hanooti seemed to hover between impatience and boredom. ''Other people are doing bad things, and they may try to use you as cover for bad things,'' Lindauer said. ''So don't let them.''
''It's a very delicate balance, as you know,'' al-Hanooti replied. ''But, ah, we'll do our best, you know. We'll do our best.'' .....------ "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004
MARCH 11, 2004 : (SUSAN LINDHAUER IS ARRESTED & CHARGED WITH HAVING ACTED AS AN UNREGISTERED AGENT FOR THE IRAQI REGIME OF SADDAM HUSSEIN) In the morning of March 11, 2004, Susan Lindauer woke to find five F.B.I. agents at her front door. After reading her her rights, the agents took Lindauer from her home in Takoma Park, Md., to the F.B.I. field office in Baltimore, where she was charged with having acted as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government and otherwise having elevated the interests of a foreign country above her allegiance to the United States.....------ "Susan Lindauer's Mission to Baghdad," DAVID SAMUELS, New York Times Magazine, August 29, 2004