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Key Player in Effort to Link Saddam, Al Qaida Loses Security Clearance.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003

By Warren P. Strobel, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 2--WASHINGTON -- A veteran Pentagon employee who was a key player in the effort to find links between Ira...i leader Saddam Hussein and al Qaida has been stripped of his security clearance, according to senior U.S. officials.

The employee, F. Michael Maloof, is associated with a Lebanese-American businessman who is under federal investigation for possible involvement in a gun-running scheme to Liberia, the West African nation embroiled in civil war. The businessman, Imad El Haje, approached Maloof on behalf of Syria to seek help in arranging a communications channel between Syria and the Defense Department.

Maloof is close to influential...

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