U.S. Will Ask Russia About Iraq Intel

The Bush administration will ask Russia about a report that Moscow turned over information on American troop movements and other military plans to Saddam Husseinduring the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. "I would hope the Russians would take it seriously," she said.

Rice declined to speculate on whether Russia's actions, as detailed in a Pentagon report based on captured Iraqi documents, resulted in casualties among U.S. troops or what Russian President Vladimir Putin knew about any possible Russian involvement.

"We will certainly raise it with the Russian government. We want to take a real hard look at the documents and then raise it with the Russian government," Rice said on NBC's "Meet the Press." The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has dismissed the allegation that Moscow provided information to Saddam, whose government was toppled in the invasion.

A Pentagon report released last week said that two captured Iraqi documents indicate that Russia obtained information from sources "inside the American Central Command" in Qatar. Russia passed battlefield intelligence to Saddam through the former Russian ambassador in Baghdad, Vladimir Titorenko, according to the Pentagon report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060326/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_russia

.... but * forgot that Putin was KGB and was known as a person who could
get answers from people who didn't want to.

hmmm, does she think they may not be accurate? :eyes: Once again, Condi has no clue. She needs to study up on the documents, but is willing to take an aggressive line against Russia since they are standing in the way of sanctions or more with Iran.

they are dusting off 'cold war' relics like the 'Ivan' snipe hunt in order to throw some raw meat to the dedicated band of stupid and deranged supporters.

(snip)
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service dismissed the claims yesterday while analysts speculated that the Pentagon's allegations were tied to a growing rift between the West and the Kremlin. "Similar baseless accusations concerning Russia's intelligence have been made more than once," Boris Labusov, an agency spokesman, said. "We don't consider it necessary to comment on such fabrications."


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Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent Moscow-based military analyst, said that the report came at an inauspicious time diplomatically between Washington and Moscow and could mark "the beginning of a real degradation of relations" between the US and Russia. Mr Felgenhauer said a unit affiliated with Russia's Defence Ministry's Main Intelligence Department, known by its abbreviation GRU, was actively working in Iraq at the time of the US invasion. The unit apparently was shut down after the fall of Baghdad.

Russian media reports yesterday speculated that the Pentagon report was released to affect the UN Security Council debate on what to do about Iran's nuclear program, with Russia, along with China, resisting US and European demands for a tough stand. Russia's Ambassador to the UN Andrey Denisov dismissed the Pentagon report as "fiction".

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18614061%255E601,00.html

Tip-offs from mole were little help
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18614058%255E601,00.html

YOU should have been stopped, under international law, Rice. Even by force, Rice. YOU.

Not Russia; not anyone else who helped the VICTIM.

And the victim was IRAQ.

Funny how bush & his entire Cabal have totally forgotten the fact that THEY illegally INVADED Iraq; a nation that hadn't been doing anything to anyone; that AMERICA is the bad guy in this, not Iraq.

Ill bet Putin has those Iraqi WMDs Bush was looking for too. Iraq had a socialist economy. That's why Bush invaded.