Posted on 03/05/2003 4:23:20 PM PST by Charge Carrier
Try this instead:
U.S. Orders Two Iraqi Diplomats to Leave
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS - The United States has ordered two Iraqi diplomats to leave the country, Iraq's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday.
Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri said the two men were ordered out of the United States because their behavior was in contradiction to their diplomatic status. This is the usual diplomatic language that refers to spying.
Al-Douri said the men were informed of the expulsion order Tuesday at 6 p.m. EST and were given 72 hours to leave the United States.
"They are the security personnel of the mission, the guards," the ambassador told The Associated Press. "They are living in the basement of the (Iraqi) mission."
The men have the ranks of attaches but are not on the list of personnel accredited to the United Nations, Al-Douri said.
"They have nothing to do with the United Nations," he said. "They are there for security reasons, to guard the mission."
The U.S. State Department announced the expulsions in a statement issued in Washington.
"The United States has requested the departure of two attaches from the Iraq Mission to the United Nations. Nazih Abdul Latif Rahman and Yehia Naeem Suaoud have been asked to depart by midnight March 7," it said.
"The two attaches were engaged in activities outside the scope of their official function. Federal law enforcement authorities deemed the activities to be harmful to our national security."
God Bless these United States! Let's Roll!
What a GREAT line! I gotta remember that one. You get my vote for the best line today!
I'm sure we're all going to miss them, primitive tribalists that they are, while at the same time welcoming 12,000 grossly primitive Somalian refugees in the next shipment, not to mention the illegal immigrants that slip over our borders every day. Homeland Security should mean something more.
And usually in cases like this, they've harvested all the information on the spies (the Iraqis in this case) and have no further use for them. If they know they're spies, they've probably been watching them for awhile.
Good opportunity for these guys to check out time-shares...
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