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| Iraq |
| Moscow - Iraq spy links. Suprise meter not required. |
| 2003-04-14 |
| Top-secret Iraqi intelligence documents found in Baghdad show that Russia funneled spy secrets to Saddam Hussein and that Moscow was still training Iraqi spies last fall, in violation of U.N. sanctions, reports say. Don't bother checking the batteries on your suprise meter. The captured documents also show that the Kremlin gave Saddam lists of assassins who could do "hits" in the West and that Iraq and Russia signed deals to share intelligence and help get "visas" so agents could go to Western countries, the London Telegraph reported. The Arabic documents -- the first in a likely flood -- show cooperation between Russia and Iraq that's far more extensive and recent than previously reported. There were even copies of Christmas cards exchanged by Iraqi and Russian intelligence chiefs, the report adds. Oh, how nice! Christmas Cards! I didn't know the Mukhabarat celebrated Christmas. They also raise new questions about Russia's motives when it formed an axis of the unwilling with France and Germany to block U.S.-British efforts to have the U.N. Security Council to get tough with Saddam. New questions? Same old questions I've always had. How 'bout you? The San Francisco Chronicle reported documents found in personnel files of Iraqi intelligence agents show they got spy training as recently as last September from the "Special Training Center" in Moscow, complete with diplomas. One agent's file -- found at an annex to Iraq's Mukhabarat spy agency -- showed he completed "acoustic surveillance" training last Sept. 15, and got a diploma with Russia's double-eagle insignia, the report said. Last September 15th, didn't President Bush go to the U.N. on the 12th? |
| Posted by:Mike N. |
| #3 Each passing day proves Den Beste more and more correct. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2003-04-14 13:30:48 |
| #2 When The Chron busts out a Russian - Iraqi spy story, it's bad. |
| Posted by: defscribe 2003-04-14 12:46:38 |
| #1 Hmmm... I just flashed a mental image of putin being questioned about this and slamming he shoe on a desk a la Kruschev. "Lies, all Lies!" "nyet, Nyet, NYET!" |
| Posted by: dripping sarcasm 2003-04-14 12:45:19 |