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http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,6277855,00.html
Russia 'gave Iraq intel help'
From correspondents in London
13apr03

DOCUMENTS found by journalists in Baghdad indicate that Iraqi officials were ordered to take files and computers home to frustrate UN weapons inspectors, and that Saddam Hussein's government received intelligence help from Russia, newspapers reported today.

The Observer newspaper said a reporter found handwritten notes at the offices of the Mukhabarat, the intelligence service, which indicated that agents were briefed on November 18 about dealing with UN teams.
"Deal softly, quietly, talk carefully," agents were told, according to the report.
"Confusion is not allowed. It is not allowed for any officer to expand his answer beyond the limit of any question or to offer further details," the newspaper quoted the Arabic document as saying.
The Sunday Telegraph reported that other documents found at what it called intelligence headquarters indicated that Baghdad had been getting some intelligence from Russia.
It said a report dated March 5, 2002, reported that a Russian official had passed on a report of a conversation between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
The document said Blair had referred to "negative things decided by the United States over Baghdad," and that Berlusconi has said Saddam must be forced to comply with UN resolutions, The Sunday Telegraph said.
Another document apparently signed by an Iraqi agent and dated November 27, 2000, claimed that Russian officials had provided a list of potential assassins, The Sunday Telegraph said.


The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1087280,00.html
Russia provided Saddam Hussein's regime with wide-ranging intelligence in the run-up to the war against Iraq, according to the Sunday Telegraph. The paper has cited what it says were secret files found in Baghdad. The documents showed that Moscow provided Baghdad with lists of assassins available for "hits" in the West, details of arms deals with neighbouring countries, and intelligence on private conversations between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other Western leaders, the Telegraph said. Iraq and Russia also signed agreements to share intelligence, help each other to "obtain" visas for agents, and to exchange information on the activities of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the newspaper reported. Intelligence The documents, which revealed the extent of links between Russia and Saddam, were obtained from the heavily bombed headquarters of the Iraqi intelligence service in Baghdad on Saturday. The files, in Arabic, were mostly intelligence reports from anonymous agents and from the Iraqi embassy in Moscow. The Telegraph said that in one report dated March 5, 2002, an Iraqi intelligence official explained that a Russian colleague had passed him details of a private conversation between Blair and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at a meeting in Rome. The document said that Blair "referred to the negative things decided by the United States over Baghdad". It added that Blair refused to engage in any military action in Iraq at that time because nothing could be done until after a new government had been set up in Afghanistan. 'Devastating' The Telegraph said it was not known how the Russians obtained such sensitive information, but the revelation that Moscow passed it on to Baghdad was likely to have a "devastating" effect on relations between Britain and Russia. One paper dated November 27, 2000 from an Iraqi agent reportedly said that the Russians had passed him a detailed list of assassins. In another document, dated March 12, 2002, the Russians apparently warned Baghdad that if it refused to comply with the United Nations then that would give the United States "a cause to destroy any nuclear weapons". Correspondence, dated January 27, 2000, informed Baghdad that in 1999 Syria bought rockets from Russia in two separate batches. Meanwhile, the Mail on Sunday reported that "Russian sources" had said that Saddam had been smuggled out of Baghdad in a convoy to Syria led by the Russian ambassador and bombed unsuccessfully by the US last Sunday. Quoting "senior military sources", the tabloid also reported that Moscow envoys held a series of meetings with Saddam before war broke out on March 20 in which the Iraqi president tried to arrange safe passage for himself, his family and for secret files out of Iraq.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

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Damn putin is stupid. To risk it all on that sob.

matt

Once a loser, always a loser.

The Russians will obviously never learn.

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Once a loser, always a loser.

The Russians will obviously never learn.

"US Army Snipers- One shot, one kill"
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Exactly....

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