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  • Iraqi 'sleeper' spy given 4 years prison

    11/28/2007 10:50:23 PM PST · by STARWISE · 6 replies · 219+ views
    Chicago SunTimes ^ | 11-28-07 | Leonard Fleming
    Although admitting he wasn't "very effective" as a spy, a federal judge today sentenced a Des Plaines man to four years in prison for his role as an Iraqi "sleeper" secretly placed in Chicago for Saddam Hussein's spy service. Sami Khoshaba Latchin, 61, was convicted by a federal jury in April. Latchin, who worked for American Airlines at O'Hare Airport, had lied about his intelligence links with the former government in Iraq and made false statements to U.S. immigration officials when he applied for naturalization in 1998. Now Latchin faces deportation - which the federal government wants - and Judge...