Iraqi ex-minister says seeks refuge at US embassy

ECH1969

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Wed Oct-11-06 11:51 AM
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Iraqi ex-minister says seeks refuge at US embassy

A former Iraqi electricity minister said he had sought shelter at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday, shortly after an Iraqi court sentenced him to two years in jail for wasting public money.

Ayham al-Samarraie, who served in the first post-war interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and holds an American passport. "I have reached the American embassy," Samarraie told Reuters.

http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/breakingnews/view.asp?msgID=12640

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babylonsister

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Wed Oct-11-06 11:53 AM
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1. Would this be considered harboring a criminal, even with a

passport? And why does he have an American passport; is he an American citizen?

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ECH1969

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Wed Oct-11-06 12:11 PM
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3. He is an Iraqi and US citizen

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cspanlovr

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Wed Oct-11-06 11:54 AM
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2. He went to the right place. We give out medals for that.

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Wed Oct-11-06 12:18 PM
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4. Wonder if he knows Chalabi? Birds of a feather and all that.

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Amonester

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Wed Oct-11-06 01:01 PM
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5. The story doesn't say how many hundreds of thousand dollars

that really belong to the U.S. taxpayers R 'hidden' in his luggage??

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