US arrests Iraqi spy in Chicago

A 60-year-old Chicago man was arrested today and accused of being a spy for fallen Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Khaled Abdel-Latif Dumeisi was arrested based on a dossier found in Baghdad in April and turned over to the FBI.

US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said Dumeisi had furnished information to Iraqi intelligence without registering as a foreign agent.

“Those who gather information in the United States about people living in America for the purpose of providing the information to hostile governments should understand that the FBI will pursue them vigorously,” Fitzgerald said.

Federal law requires anyone acting as an agent of a foreign government who is not a member of that country’s diplomatic service to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent.

Dumeisi did not do so, federal officials said.

They said members of the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition group, discovered a dossier in a Baghdad safehouse run by Iraq’s intelligence service in the days when Saddam’s regime was crumbling.