IRAQ JUNKET WASHINGTON (AP) (wgvu) - FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAY 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.
ONE OF THE LAWMAKERS WAS FORMER DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN DAVID
BONIOR OF MOUNT CLEMENS (MICHIGAN).
AN INDICTMENT UNSEALED IN DETROIT ACCUSES MUTHANNA AL-HANOOTI 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.
AL-HANOOTI, A MEMBER OF A MICHIGAN NONPROFIT GROUP, WAS ARRESTED
TUESDAY NIGHT.
THE LAWMAKERS ARE NOT NAMED IN THE INDICTMENT.
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