US Orders Expulsion of Iraqi Diplomat to UN

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US Orders Expulsion of Iraqi Diplomat to UN

The United States ordered on Friday the expulsion of a UN-based Iraqi diplomat on the grounds that he has spied on the United States, but Iraq's UN Ambassador Mohammed Douri denied the accusations.

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The United States ordered on Friday the expulsion of a UN-based Iraqi diplomat on the grounds that he has spied on the United States, but Iraq's UN Ambassador Mohammed Douri denied the accusations.

A US official delivered a letter to the Iraqi mission to the United Nations shortly after noon on Friday that demanded the diplomat, Abdul Rahman Saad, leave the country by the end of the month.

"He was engaging in activities that are incompatible with being a diplomat. He was spying," said a US official, who declined to discuss the nature of Saad's alleged espionage.

However, Douri denied that Saad or any of the other 15 Iraqi diplomats serving at the United Nations has conducted espionage in the United States.

"We have no spies, we are diplomats. We are working at the United Nations," he said.

The United States does not have diplomatic relations with Iraq,which is allowed to keep a small mission in New York to conduct business at the United Nations.

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