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Saddam Hussein’s stepson arrested in Miami
By Jose Dante Parra Herrera and Jeff Shields
Sun-Sentinel
Posted July 3 2002
MIAMI -- A stepson of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was arrested by Immigration and Naturalization Service agents on Wednesday evening after they discovered he was trying to attend a local flight school with a visa that did not authorize him to take classes in the United States, INS officials said.
Mohammed Nur Al-Din Saffi entered the United States through Los Angeles International Airport and then took a connecting flight to Miami, said Jim Goldman, INS spokesman. Saffi, son of Saddam Hussein’s wife, was scheduled to take classes at a school where one of the Sept. 11 terrorists had also taken classes, federal authorities said.
Saffi, a naturalized New Zealander, is an airline mechanic in that country and was planning to take a flight engineering course. He reportedly was to attend the same flight school as Ziad Jarrah, one of the men suspected of commandeering Flight 93 into a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11.
According to an article published in December in One News, a New Zealand Internet site, Saffi was investigated by New Zealand police in the days after the attacks, but they did not find anything on him, the article said.
He was taken to Krome Detention Center.
By Jose Dante Parra Herrera and Jeff Shields
Sun-Sentinel
Posted July 3 2002
MIAMI -- A stepson of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was arrested by Immigration and Naturalization Service agents on Wednesday evening after they discovered he was trying to attend a local flight school with a visa that did not authorize him to take classes in the United States, INS officials said.
Mohammed Nur Al-Din Saffi entered the United States through Los Angeles International Airport and then took a connecting flight to Miami, said Jim Goldman, INS spokesman. Saffi, son of Saddam Hussein’s wife, was scheduled to take classes at a school where one of the Sept. 11 terrorists had also taken classes, federal authorities said.
Saffi, a naturalized New Zealander, is an airline mechanic in that country and was planning to take a flight engineering course. He reportedly was to attend the same flight school as Ziad Jarrah, one of the men suspected of commandeering Flight 93 into a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11.
According to an article published in December in One News, a New Zealand Internet site, Saffi was investigated by New Zealand police in the days after the attacks, but they did not find anything on him, the article said.
He was taken to Krome Detention Center.