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Friday, June 18, 2004

Russia Warned US of Iraqi Attacks on US

Reuters
Russia warned the United States on several occasions that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein planned “terrorist attacks” on its soil, President Vladimir Putin said today.

”After the events of September 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, Russian special services several times received such information and passed it on to their American colleagues,” he told reporters.

Mr Putin said Russian intelligence services had many times received information that Saddam’s special forces were preparing terrorist attacks in the United States “and beyond its borders on American military and civilian targets.”

“This information was conveyed to our American colleagues,” he said.

He added that Russian intelligence had no proof that Saddam agents had been involved in any particular attack.
It should be noted the Russians would be expected to have the best available intelligence on Iraqi activities, due to the fact that Russia maintained diplomatic relations with Iraq until the war, and had a large number of agents in place due to a long-term friendly relationship with Saddam's regime.

I think the accusations of "lying" or "misleading" the American public about the Iraq-Al-Qaida connection are unfounded. While these theories were clearly wrong, there is no basis to believe that these stated positions were lies. The Bush administration probably believed them to be true.
Posted by: Zayphar / 6/18/2004 10:13:00 AM
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Sad if true
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 11:51 AM
 
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