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Federal prosecutors today charged a Maryland woman with spying for Iraq. They allege that Saddam Hussein's government paid the 41- year-old woman $10,000 for her work over a five-year period. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports.
ALLISON AUBREY reporting:
Susan Lindauer was arrested this morning at her home in Takoma Park, Maryland, a close-in Washington suburb. Neighbors watched as a handful of FBI agents searched the home of a woman they knew to be a free-lance media consultant who once worked as a journalist and later as a Capitol Hill press secretary. Neighbor Tom Kauffman(ph) was stunned by the charges.
Mr. TOM KAUFFMAN: It caught me completely by surprise. And, no, it doesn't make sense to me based on what I know about her.
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