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Insider could have passed information on Baghdad hotel
Washington, Oct 27: A contractor supplying kitchen staff and secretaries for the Al Rasheed Hotel, which came under attack while the US Deputy Secretary of State was putting up there, could have passed information to the anti- American resistance, media reports said today quoting an unnamed Iraqi informant.
Washington, Oct 27: A contractor supplying
kitchen staff and secretaries for the Al Rasheed Hotel, which
came under attack while the US Deputy Secretary of State was
putting up there, could have passed information to the anti-
American resistance, media reports said today quoting an
unnamed Iraqi informant.
A US army colonel was killed and 17 others wounded
when the hotel came under a barrage of rockets yesterday while
US Deputy Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz was on a tour of
the war-ravaged nation.
According to a Washington Times despatch from Baghdad, the informant, who works with the newly trained Iraqi police, claims that he had warned the coalition officials against the contractor nearly two months ago in a letter but was apparently ignored.
The Times turned over another copy of the letter to a lieutenant colonel in the US army's 1st Armored Division yesterday and was told it would be investigated.
The informant, who identifies himself fully in his letter but declined to have his name published, focuses his charges on Muslel Muhammed Farhan al-Dilemi, a 53-old manager of Al-Tamoor Trading Co. Which provides services to the hotel.
Al-Dilemi "used to meet with men of Saddam's security, intelligence and ... Most of the Ba'ath Party officials," the September 02 letter says adding that al-Dilemi placed several people with jobs in the hotel kitchen and staffed the hotel with a number of "beautiful secretaries" for whom he arranged sexual liaisons.
Bureau Report
According to a Washington Times despatch from Baghdad, the informant, who works with the newly trained Iraqi police, claims that he had warned the coalition officials against the contractor nearly two months ago in a letter but was apparently ignored.
The Times turned over another copy of the letter to a lieutenant colonel in the US army's 1st Armored Division yesterday and was told it would be investigated.
The informant, who identifies himself fully in his letter but declined to have his name published, focuses his charges on Muslel Muhammed Farhan al-Dilemi, a 53-old manager of Al-Tamoor Trading Co. Which provides services to the hotel.
Al-Dilemi "used to meet with men of Saddam's security, intelligence and ... Most of the Ba'ath Party officials," the September 02 letter says adding that al-Dilemi placed several people with jobs in the hotel kitchen and staffed the hotel with a number of "beautiful secretaries" for whom he arranged sexual liaisons.
Bureau Report