{"id":597,"date":"2005-03-04T00:19:05","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T06:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=597"},"modified":"2005-09-25T03:23:44","modified_gmt":"2005-09-25T08:23:44","slug":"ind-man-allegedly-tried-to-sell-spy-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Man Allegedly Tried to Sell Spy Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=519&#038;ncid=718&#038;e=6&#038;u=\/ap\/20050304\/ap_on_re_us\/iraqi_agent\">bad guy caught<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal grand jury has indicted an Indiana man on charges he tried to sell names of U.S. intelligence operatives in Iraq to Saddam Hussein&#8217;s government before the U.S. invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, 52, was charged with agreeing to act as a foreign agent for Iraq and with immigration violations, federal prosecutors said Thursday following Shaaban&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Shaaban traveled in late 2002 from Chicago to Baghdad, where he agreed to sell the names of U.S. intelligence agents to Saddam&#8217;s government for $3 million, said Susan Brooks, the U.S. attorney for southern Indiana. The Iraqi government paid for the trip, the indictment alleges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deal was never consummated,&#8221; Brooks said.<\/p>\n<p>Shaaban sought the names from foreign sources, but investigators believe he never obtained them, Brooks said. Investigators believe Shaaban acted alone.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Brooks said she could not discuss what sparked the federal investigation of Shaaban, a resident of Greenfield, which is about 20 miles east of Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>The federal indictment unsealed Thursday also alleges Shaaban sought to broadcast pro-Iraqi propaganda in the United States and offered to pay Iraqis who agreed to act as &#8220;human shields&#8221; to protect infrastructure from coalition forces, Brooks said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believe that Shaaban is originally from Jordan and became a U.S. citizen illegally in 2000 when he used the alias Shaaban Hafed on his naturalization application. If convicted of that charge, he most likely will be deported, Brooks said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban illegally became an American citizen under the name Shaaban Hafed and he&#8217;s found guilty of these acts, then I suggest we hang &#8220;Mr. Hafed&#8221; for treason and <em>then<\/em> deport Mr. Shaaban.  In a box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another bad guy caught? A federal grand jury has indicted an Indiana man on charges he tried to sell names of U.S. intelligence operatives in Iraq to Saddam Hussein&#8217;s government before the U.S. invasion. Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, 52, was charged with agreeing to act as a foreign agent for Iraq and with immigration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}