Prosecutors Say Saddam Hussein Paid for McDermott Iraq Trip
Breaking news - excerpts from an Associated Press report:

Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam's regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary.

At the time, the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq.

The lawmakers are not named in the indictment but the dates correspond to a trip by Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California....

For the full Associated Press story at http://tinyurl.com/2l2pwd

For a related report by David Postman of the Seattle Times, with readers' commentary, at http://tinyurl.com/2wj3dq

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