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 [Political Forum] Saddam Officials Financed Secret Pre-War Iraq Trip for US Democrat ...: Al-Hanooti worked on and off from 1999 to 2006 as a public relations coordinator for Life for Relief and Development, a Michigan group formed after the first Gulf War to fund humanitarian work in Iraq. FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents raided the charity's headquarters in 2006 but charged nobody and allowed the agency to continue operating.

 [Mazaqah] Indictment: Hussein fed money to spy for US officials’ trip: Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency footed the bill for a U.S. congressional delegation’s trip during a buildup to the Iraq war, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday in the case of an Iraqi-born U.S. citizen charged with spying for the Iraqi government.

[9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America] Accused spy “funded” antiwar Democrat Congressmens’ 2002 Iraq trip: An advertisement for a Life for Relief and Development fundraiser was advertised on the website of the Young Muslims (the Al Muhajiroun/Al Qaeda) youth group, which is under the aegis of the Muslim American Society, and the Islamic Circle of North America, should be enough proof to show that the ‘charity’ has militant Islamist affiliations.

 [North Coast Journal Blogthing] CNN: Thompson Iraq Visit Bought By Iraqi Spy: Thompson now sits on the House Intelligence Committee, and is chair of the subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Human Analysis and Counterintelligence. So if you want to find a positive angle, you could say that being the target of an enemy power’s intelligence operation might just deepen your understanding of, and commitment to, the cause of counterintelligence.

 [On The wRite Side.Org] Sadam Picked Up Tab For Dem 2002 Congressional Trip: On Wednesday the unsealed Justice Department indictment against Muthanna Al-Hanooti-a top official for a Detroit based Muslim charity called Life for Relief-reflects that Saddam Hussein’s principal foreign intelligence paid for a 2002 widely criticized visit to Iraq by three House Democrats.

[The Strata-Sphere] Saddam’s Surrendercrat Puppets In Congress, Working For The Enemy: The Surrendercrats work with the Surrender media to drain our resolve and sow hopelessness in our cause (as we saw when the stated the Surge had failed before it had even begun), as well as to cripple our security outright by exposing it through cooked-up conspiracy theories (which they did when the exposed the terrorist surveillance program where NSA leads were now being sent to the FIS Court as evidence for probable cause, which they did when the exposed the international money tracking efforts to locate terrorists and active cells by following the money flows, as they did when they exposed how the CIA transports key prisoners from the battlefields to safe houses for interrogation).

 [Blogs For Victory] Old News: Saddam Regime Paid for Democrats Pre-War Trip To Iraq: An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam’s regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary.

[Hoystory] Well worth the money: Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, said no member of Congress was aware of al-Hanooti’s alleged activities. “None of the congressional representatives are accused of any wrongdoing, and we have no information whatsoever that any of them were aware of the involvement of the Iraqi Intelligence Service,”

[Target Rich Environment] Whatever You Do, DON’T Question Their Patriotism: At the time, the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq. The three anti-war Democratic lawmakers apparently targeted by Al-Hanooti used their October 2002 trip to call for a diplomatic solution in Iraq.

 [Drink-soaked Trotskyite Popinjays for WAR] Saddam’s dealers and dupes: Muthanna Al-Hanooti, who worked as a top official at Life for Relief and Development ”” a charity in Southfield, Mich. ”” allegedly coordinated U.S. congressional delegations to Iraq at the direction of the executed dictator’s intelligence service between 1999 and 2002.

[FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog] The Three Stooges Go to Iraq: An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam’s regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary.

 [The Elite Agenda Blog] Indictment: Hussein fed money to spy for US officials’ trip: Al-Hanooti appeared in court in Detroit Wednesday. He was charged with one count of being an unregistered agent for Hussein’s government, one count of violating economic sanctions on Iraq and three counts of lying to U.S. investigators.

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