3:00 PM January 17, 2006
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060117/NEWS01/601170466/0/NEWS02Spy suspect removed from courtroom
By Kevin Corcoran
kevin.corcoran@indystar.com
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An Indiana truck driver charged with offering to sell secrets to Iraqi intelligence officials walked out of his trial this afternoon.
Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, 53, angrily accused federal prosecutors of "buying" witnesses against him as his ex-wife, Svetlana A. Shaban, testified.
"It's unfair trial," Shaaban declared in front of the jury. As the judge issued another warning outside of the presence of the jury, Shaaban packed his files and demanded to be removed from the courtroom. He objected to Dazey and Donahoe representing him, as a U.S. marshal placed him in handcuffs.
Shaaban was taken to another room in the courthouse where he could continue to watch his trial on closed-circuit television...
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