‘Sleeper’ gets term as spy for Hussein
From Times Wire Reports
A man accused of being a “sleeper agent” sent to spy on Saddam Hussein’s enemies in the United States was sentenced in Chicago to four years in federal prison for lying about his ties to the former regime.
Sami Khoshaba Latchin, 61, listened through a translator and nodded his head as Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer said that he “wasn’t very good as a spy” and that there was no evidence he posed a genuine threat. She could have sentenced him to more than six years in prison.
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