Iraq belly-dancer denies link

Dubai - An Iraqi belly-dancer, named Maleen and living in Sweden, denied charges yesterday that she was a specially-trained female…

Dubai - An Iraqi belly-dancer, named Maleen and living in Sweden, denied charges yesterday that she was a specially-trained female agent for the Iraqi regime and threatened to prosecute the newspapers which accused her of being one.

Several British papers reported last month that President Saddam Hussein had dispatched belly-dancers to London to infiltrate Iraqi opposition circles and kill or maim dissidents.

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