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CHICAGO: A judge denied bail to a man accused of spying on Iraqi opposition groups for Saddam Hussein, saying he had "hitched his star to the murderer and torturer of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis”. Khaled Abdel-Latif Dumeisi, 61, held his head in his hands on Thursday as federal magistrate judge Edward A Bobrick accused him of spying for "the maniacal, perverted, homicidal mass murderer and torturer of women and children." The community newspaper publisher is accused of spying on Iraqi opposition leaders in this country on behalf of Saddam's intelligence service while failing to register as an agent of...

from the February 26, 2003 edition US envoy's visit may spell out Kurds' postwar fate The arrival of Zalmay Khalilzad in northern Iraq comes at a pivotal time for Kurdish leaders. By Cameron W. Barr | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ARBIL, IRAQ – A senior US diplomat has entered the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq to discuss the shape of a future Iraqi administration with opponents of President Saddam Hussein. Zalmay Khalilzad, President Bush's envoy to the Iraqi opposition, was expected to arrive Tuesday in Salahuddin, the mountain resort headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary gave the United States permission Wednesday to train Iraqi opposition members at a Hungarian air base for possible deployment in their homeland. Government spokesman Zoltan J. Gal said the first trainees could arrive as early as January at the Taszar air base 120 southeast of Budapest. The United States has permission to train up to 3,000 personnel of Iraqi or other Arab origin now living in Europe or the United States and attached to the U.S. military, Gal said. President Bush has vowed to use force against Saddam Hussein if Baghdad is found to have...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/3/02 Israel, Nablus, Bushehr Reactor, Iraq Jerusalem, Hebrew University, Nablus, Gaza, Ramallah, Iran, Bushehr Nuclear Reactor, Izhora plant (St. Petersburg) construction, Iraq, Palestinians and WMD ,opposition to Saddam, Dinar plunging, DC ======= ISRAEL Jerusalem, ======== In Jerusalem, mourning at Hebrew University, and Dina Carter's funeral - an American murdered by terrorists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; terrorists still supported by the Arabist US State Dept. who hypocritcally now offers a "reward" even as futher appeasement and capitulation is planned. ======= Tel Aviv ======== In Tel Aviv, Benjamin Thomas Blutstein, an American...

WASHINGTON, Jul 29, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- The State Department said Monday that it was seeking a change of leadership in Iraq and has invited six Iraqi opposition leaders to Washington next week for talks. "We believe that a regime change there would benefit all of us, including the Iraqis," Phillip Reeker, the department's deputy spokesman, told a briefing in Washington. He described Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as "a direct threat" to his neighbors, adding that his ouster would also be good for them. Reeker said that the international community needed "to be very concerned about his...