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01-28-2003, 01:07 PM
washingtonpost.com
Missing Iraqis Sought
FBI Hunts for Thousands Here Illegally
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 27, 2003; Page A01
The FBI has launched a concerted search for several thousand illegal Iraqi immigrants who have gone missing while visiting the United States and are among those being sought for voluntary interviews in advance of a possible war with Iraq, officials said.
Although the majority of Iraqi immigrants are viewed as being opposed to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and sympathetic to the United States, federal authorities are concerned that others who have disappeared from the government's view are more likely to be agents of the Iraqi regime or to be allied with terrorist groups, officials said.
For example, several U.S. officials said, Hussein's government is known to have recruited Iraqi students studying in the United States to gather information and intelligence on U.S. technology.
sizable Iraqi immigrant populations, including Washington, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and northern New Jersey. (http://www.washingtonpost.c om/wp-dyn/articles/A47193-2003Jan26.html)
Missing Iraqis Sought
FBI Hunts for Thousands Here Illegally
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 27, 2003; Page A01
The FBI has launched a concerted search for several thousand illegal Iraqi immigrants who have gone missing while visiting the United States and are among those being sought for voluntary interviews in advance of a possible war with Iraq, officials said.
Although the majority of Iraqi immigrants are viewed as being opposed to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and sympathetic to the United States, federal authorities are concerned that others who have disappeared from the government's view are more likely to be agents of the Iraqi regime or to be allied with terrorist groups, officials said.
For example, several U.S. officials said, Hussein's government is known to have recruited Iraqi students studying in the United States to gather information and intelligence on U.S. technology.
sizable Iraqi immigrant populations, including Washington, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and northern New Jersey. (http://www.washingtonpost.c om/wp-dyn/articles/A47193-2003Jan26.html)