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U.S. Expels Two Members of Iraq's U.N. Mission
Reuters ^ | 03/05/2003 | Reuters

Posted on 03/05/2003 4:23:20 PM PST by Charge Carrier

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States expelled two members of Iraq (news - web sites)'s mission and told them to get out of the country within 72 hours for activities "harmful to the United States," a U.S. source said on Wednesday.

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TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: iraq; un
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1 posted on 03/05/2003 4:23:20 PM PST by Charge Carrier
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To: Charge Carrier
Tick Tick Tick.....
2 posted on 03/05/2003 4:24:31 PM PST by KevinDavis (Ad Astra!)
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To: Charge Carrier
10...9...8...7...6...5...4........
3 posted on 03/05/2003 4:24:55 PM PST by b4its2late (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups......)
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To: Charge Carrier
I bet they won't hurry back to Bahgdad...
4 posted on 03/05/2003 4:26:43 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Charge Carrier
I hate excerpts.

Try this instead:

U.S. Orders Two Iraqi Diplomats to Leave
Associated Press

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."


5 posted on 03/05/2003 4:26:49 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Charge Carrier
go..GO!...and never DARKEN our TOWELS AGAIN!
6 posted on 03/05/2003 4:27:37 PM PST by jaz.357
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To: Charge Carrier
First we kick 'em out of the US... then we kick them out of Iraq!

God Bless these United States! Let's Roll!

7 posted on 03/05/2003 4:27:37 PM PST by libsrscum
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To: Charge Carrier
We've got to kick out the old to bring in the new.
8 posted on 03/05/2003 4:28:08 PM PST by July 4th
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To: Charge Carrier
Expel my balls. Detain them.
10 posted on 03/05/2003 4:29:40 PM PST by Solamente
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To: Charge Carrier
Good news, but even better would be if we started expelling some Russian, French, German, ..., hell the entire U.N. should be expelled.
11 posted on 03/05/2003 4:33:00 PM PST by ImpBill ("You are either with US or against US!")
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To: Suburban Jim
"...it's God's job to judge these bastards, it's our job to arrange the meeting..."

What a GREAT line! I gotta remember that one. You get my vote for the best line today!

12 posted on 03/05/2003 4:34:46 PM PST by teletech (Its time to bomb Saddam)
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To: Solamente
Do we really have to detain your balls? sorry I just couldn't resist. Look at your post again, it is funny.
13 posted on 03/05/2003 4:39:41 PM PST by cajungirl
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To: Charge Carrier
Well that's a start...
14 posted on 03/05/2003 4:40:56 PM PST by steveo ("Officers, officers! There is a man in a Major Domo outfit...")
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To: Dog Gone
"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."

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.

15 posted on 03/05/2003 4:42:11 PM PST by xJones
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To: Dog Gone
"This is the usual diplomatic language that refers to spying."

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.

16 posted on 03/05/2003 4:45:20 PM PST by MizSterious
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To: MizSterious
I wonder what kind of spying Iraqis do in New York that is of any value to them.
17 posted on 03/05/2003 4:47:18 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: EternalVigilance
"I bet they won't hurry back to Bahgdad..."

Good opportunity for these guys to check out time-shares...

18 posted on 03/05/2003 4:52:34 PM PST by F16Fighter (Secure U.S. borders and DEPORT!)
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To: Dog Gone
My guess? It might be more a matter of terrorism than spying per se--contacting agents, setting things up. Just a guess, and not even an educated guess at that.
19 posted on 03/05/2003 4:57:16 PM PST by MizSterious
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To: Dog Gone
We will probably never know.

"In mid-February, the United States expelled the U.N. correspondent of the official Iraqi News Agency, Mohammad Hassan Allawi. Last June U.S. officials expelled a first secretary at Iraq's U.N. mission.

Allawi, 38, had been the INA correspondent at the United Nations for two years. He lived in Manhattan with his wife and five children, aged 8 to 16, who attend New York public schools. The U.N. Correspondents Association protested his expulsion to Secretary of State Colin Powell and asked for an explanation, which it did not receive."
- from http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=443WYREUXI1P4CRBAEKSFFA?type=topNews&storyID=2333302
20 posted on 03/05/2003 4:59:50 PM PST by Charge Carrier
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