(AP/San Francisco Chronicle) Khaled Dumeisi, 61, publisher of an Arabic-language community newspaper in Chicago's south suburbs, is accused of spying on Iraqi dissidents for Saddam Hussein's government, prosecutors said Monday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Victoria Peters told jurors that Dumeisi furnished Iraqi agents with lists of phone calls made by a leading dissident in the U.S. that he obtained through a friend who worked for a long-distance company, and that as a Palestinian, "he believed that Saddam Hussein was the only Middle Eastern leader that really supported the cause of the Palestinians."
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