WHEN SABRI and Regard Yakou were arrested in the fall of 2003 for brokering an arms deal with the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, their case created a welcome media splash for the U.S. government.
Regard Yakou, a U.S. citizen, and his Iraq-born father Sabri, who had held permanent-resident status in the United States, were pursued overseas by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and charged with facilitating the construction and sale of six armed patrol boats to Saddam’s navy in the run-up to the U.S. invasion. “It’s really a shock,” Michael Dougherty, a top ICE official, told The New York Times in October 2003, “when you think about American residents dealing with an enemy regime in a time of war.”
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