Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The CNN article has the most meat: Indictment: Hussein fed money to spy for U.S. officials' trip. It includes the revelation that the pre-invasion visit of Reps Jim McDermott, David Bonior and Mike Thompson was paid for by the Iraqi Government -- under ordinary circumstances and with an ally not a big deal perhaps, but on the verge of war to take the free trip and denounce your own country abroad...
The CAIR connection: Former worker for Muslim charity in Southfield accused of being Hussein spy
An Iraqi-American from Michigan who worked for a Southfield charity has been accused of working as a spy for the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein, according to a federal indictment unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Detroit.
Muthanna Al-Hanooti was charged with several counts, including conspiracy to work on behalf of a foreign government and making false statements to the FBI. Al-Hanooti used to work for Life for Relief and Development, a Muslim charity based in Southfield that works in Iraq and other countries. That charity was raided by federal agents in Sept. 2006.
According to the indictment, Al-Hanooti would travel to Iraq and meet with conspirators of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. The indictment says that Al-Hanooti was rewarded with 2 million barrels of oil for his work.
The indictment also alleges that Iraqi intelligence officials used an intermediary in Michigan to help fund a trip to Iraq taken by U.S. members of Congress in 2002.
Al-Hanooti was active in other local groups. He was former head of the Michigan branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations and the president of Focus on American and Arab Interests and Relations.
Hard to know what to say about it, these days.
Thanks for this article, it is hard to find their names on "GOOGLE" searches - how shocked I was by that! :)
These Congressmen should have been tried for TREASON upon their return to America from those trips, where they were attempting to be HUMAN SHIELDS for Saddam Hussein, to begin with.
I know that Congressman Keith Ellison is currently AS WE SPEAK in Afghanistan telling those folks that Americans are TIRED OF THIS WAR ON TERROR.
You would think he is an Iranian Parliamentarian, instead of a U.S. Congressman!
I don't understand the workings of bureaucracies that have not already put CAIR on the list of America's enemies and put the people working through it under investigation.
The time will come when those "U.S." politicians and bureaucrats will feel the pinch of the world terrorism, and wish they had the benevolence of the American citizens on their sides.
And it won't be there for them.