Muthanna Al-Hanooti

Guide Note:

Muthanna Al-Hanooti is a Michigan charity worker charged with being an Iraqi spy and setting up a meeting for three United States lawmakers in Iraq at the request of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2002. Hanooti, while working for Life for Relief and Development, a charity providing humanitarian aid to Iraq's, was said to have been paid for setting up the meeting for the lawmakers with two million barrels of oil. The three anti-war Democratic lawmakers, Jim McDermott of Washington. Mike Thompson of California, and former Rep. David Bonior, of Michigan have all denied knowing the trip was financed by Hussein and were not named in the indictment. Fast Facts:

1. Occurred at time President Bush was trying to gain congressional approval for invading Iraq
2. The three lawmakers were criticized for making the trip despite no weapons of mass being discovered in Iraq
3. McDermott was called ""Baghdad Jim" for the Iraq trip
4. Life for Relief charity was formed after Gulf War
5. Hanooti worked for Life for Relief from 1999-2006