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October 14, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mohamad-soueid-of-nva-accused-of-spying-for-syrian-officials/2011/10/12/gIQAPWEIgL_story.html

U.S. Accuses Syrian-Born Man of Spying on Anti-Assad Dissidents

(Washington Post) Del Quentin Wilber - Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid, 47, has been accused of gathering information about people protesting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and passing it along to Syrian intelligence officials. The Syrian-born naturalized U.S. citizen sought to "undermine, silence, intimidate, and potentially harm" those protesting the Damascus regime, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Wednesday. Soueid e-mailed about 20 audio and video recordings of anti-government protests and conversations with protesters in the U.S. to a Syrian intelligence official.

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