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.
The documents also said Al-Awadi told the Iraqi Intelligence Service in 1997 that he killed his son-in-law, who belonged to an anti-Hussein political party.
Iraqis in the Detroit metropolitan area, home to the largest expatriate Iraqi population, have long complained they were being spied on. Shemami and Al-Awadi were born in Iraq and are naturalized U.S. citizens.
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.
The court documents also said Al-Awadi provided information about a retired Iraqi physician who was planning to flee to the United States and his nephew, a major general in Iraq.
No comments:
Post a Comment