More on Saffi's arrest in the USA: sun-sentinel.com
<“They have the right to ask any time they want. I don’t have a problem at all,” Saffi was quoted as saying. “I think they went and asked all the people who work in aviation all over the world.” Saffi is the son of Samira Shahbandar, Saddam Hussein’s former mistress whom he later married, the newspaper reported. Nor Al-din Saffi, Saffi’s father, was a high-ranking official within the government-owned Iraqi Airways, the newspaper said.
An official from the Iraqi National Congress, a Washington-based opposition group, told the New Zealand newspaper that “basically, Saddam made [Samira] divorce her husband and marry him, which is something I don't think any kid would appreciate,” the official said. “[Nor Aldin Saffi] was rewarded by being given a post within the airways.”
Uday Hussein, Saddam Hussein's eldest son with his first wife, was reportedly enraged when he found out about the affair. The Middle East Review of International Affairs said Uday murdered a bodyguard of Hussein because he had acted as a messenger between Hussein and his mistress. The Washington Post reported that when Hussein’s father-in-law objected to the marriage with Shahbandar he was stripped of his property. Other dissenting family and friends were wounded or died mysteriously.
Goldman said while there is no indication of wrongdoing on the part of Saffi besides the immigration violation, it certainly raised suspicions.
“The good news is that he is in custody.”>
Huh? Why is it good news that he's in custody? USA intelligence agencies are not showing a lot of it with such comments.
The Florida training school will have to set up an offshore simulator training business because their customers get arrested for making a mistake on what kind of visa is required.
Richard Bliss [a QUALCOMM employee] was arrested by the Russians for similar reasons and there was a hue and cry over it. He took some GPS equipment to Russia when he was involved in a CDMA network project, and he thought the paperwork was in order, though it wasn't. The Russians, like the Americans in this instance, figured they had caught a spy or something [which perhaps entitles them to bonus payments in their performance reviews]. They kept him in prison for a few weeks while Clinton, Albright and co leaned on the Russians to let him go.
Are people in the USA guilty of crimes because they are related by marriage to somebody who is a ring-leader in the Matrix of Malevolence? I'd have thought the USA could simply issue Saffi with a student visa, if that's what was needed, when he arrived at LAX. I guess I'd better sell my US$ and US shares before they confiscate all US$ and property held by aliens. Well, I don't want to be too hasty, but I'm keeping my trigger-finger close to the mouse. I wouldn't want to be last out if the USA goes nuts. There are some un-nerving trends.
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