(AP/Los Angeles Times)- A suburban Chicago man was arrested Wednesday on charges of serving as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's government, including spying on opposition leaders for Iraqi intelligence, federal officials said. Khaled Abdel-Latif Dumeisi, 60, of Oak Lawn was arrested based on a dossier found in Baghdad in April and turned over to the FBI. According to federal officials, Dumeisi was trained by Saddam's intelligence agents to use a pen with a hidden camera and microphone to record an interview with a member of an Iraqi opposition group critical of Saddam.
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