CNN reports that a man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq’s parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s ruling coalition.

Jamal Jafaar Mohammed’s seat in parliament gives him immunity from prosecution and Washington sources say he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq.

CNN said that U.S. military intelligence in Iraq has approached al-Maliki’s government with the allegations against Jamal Jafaar Mohammed, whom it says assists Iranian special forces in Iraq as “a conduit for weapons and political influence.”

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