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Home Front: WoT
Former Iraqi official testifies about Baghdad meeting with Shaaban
2006-01-12
A former high-ranking Iraqi intelligence official completed his testimony against an Indiana truck driver today in federal court, insisting that Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban was the same man who traveled to Iraq and offered to sell the names of U.S. covert operatives. "I know you as well as I know myself that I've seen you in Baghdad," the former Iraqi agent said.

Shaaban referred to the officer, testifying under the alias "Mr. Akram," more than once as "Akram S.S.," in a veiled reference to Nazi Germany's secret police.
That just sorta rolled from his lips, didn't it?
The testimony of this former officer in the Mukhabarat, Iraq's disbanded intelligence-gathering agency, put Shaaban in a bugged room at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad trying to betray the United States in late 2002 in exchange for millions of dollars. Federal prosecutors say Shaaban is a 53-year-old Palestinian man who also goes by Shaaban S. Hafed or Joe Brown.

In addition to an allegation he acted as an unregistered agent of the Iraqi regime, Shaaban was indicted last March on charges of conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, illegally traveling to Iraq, violating a U.S. ban on doing business with Iraq and fraudulently obtaining a commercial driver's license and illegally securing U.S. citizenship.
Busy bugger, wasn't he.
Shaaban must also persuade jurors an eight-page letter in Arabic he sent his brother Oct. 3 was not a death threat. The Greenfield resident faces death plus up to 65 years in prison.

The jury of seven women and five men, drawn from good old country stock in Central Indiana also has heard testimony today from an Air France ticket agent who described records of Shaaban's alleged flight from Chicago to Syria and from two officials of Shaaban's former employer, who said Shaaban took an extended leave of absence from truck driving during the period in late 2002 that prosecutors allege he traveled to Iraq.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  Valerie Plame?
Posted by: Raj   2006-01-12 08:32  

#2  Joe Brown.
Posted by: Danking70   2006-01-12 00:57  

#1  an Indiana truck driver today, Shaaban, traveled to Iraq and offered to sell the names of U.S. covert operatives.

How did he get their names in the first place?
Posted by: 2b   2006-01-12 00:35  

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