Man accused of selling secrets to Iraq says he's U.S. AGENT

[theearthisround]

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?s=3452179

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that a Greenfield truck driver accused of being an Iraqi agent presents a "clear and present danger" to the public and should not be freed before his trial later this month.

Fifty-two-year-old Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban appeared in federal court in Indianapolis for a hearing Wednesday and spoke for more than three hours.

He told the judge he's really a US secret agent and claims prosecutors have mixed him up with his now-dead twin brother.

Investigators say Shaaban is a seasoned intelligence officer trained by the Soviet KGB and has at least 13 aliases. The indictment alleges he traveled to Baghdad in 2002 and offered to sell officials the names of US intelligence operatives in Iraq for millions of dollars.

[FloridaPat]

1. May I remind folks of the following:

When Reagan was pres, a pilot got caught in Mexico I think it was with a plane full of drugs. He was arrested but claimed he worked for the CIA. There was another pilot somewhere in South America that also got caught with a plane full of drugs and claimed the same thing. Both were ignored. Then along came the Iran-Contra stink and low and behold, our government was running guns and drugs around Central and South America with American pilots.

So if it's a choice of believing some nut off the street or the US government, chances are the nut is the one telling the truth.

Isn't that really sad??

[Moderator]

2. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1535393