The Iraq Connection
By AAN Staff
march 3, 2003 04:55 pm
A federal anti-terrorism task force has arrested an Iraqi refugee living in the Seattle suburbs and charged him with running a "sprawling illegal financial network" that "funneled millions of dollars" back to his homeland. At least one national security expert thinks the case is "ridiculous." Either way, writes Seattle Weekly's Nina Shapiro, the story of Hussain Alshafei tells a lot about the country with which we may soon be at war, and about our country's hunt for terrorists among immigrant populations.