Russians help Iraq, according to Washington

AFP via Babelfish translation | March 23, 2003

[HAL9000]

WASHINGTON, 23 March (AFP - The United States think that some technician Russian help the Iraq to scramble some signal satellite crucial for the guidance of bomb and apparatus American and British, have affirm Sunday a high person in charge American under cover of anonymat.

Ce responsible have declare with AFP that Washington have of evidence that of personnel of a firm Russian be currently in Iraq and seek à help the force Iraqi to develop au point a system sophisticate some jamming of system of guidance américain.

"Ce system be complex and it there have some evidence that they (these technician Russian) try to it make go and to help the Iraqi to use ", have

[Zipporah]

GOOD LORD.. GET US OUT OF THE UN now!!!!!!

[joesnuffy]

FOX News just announced Russian Techs may have been in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq last week

[sinkspur]

Tony Snow has been talking about this for the last 30 minutes.

Seems like the mongoloid Russians are stabbing us in the back, again.

[CAPPSMADNESS]

You mean Pooty-Poot??? But I thought he was a friend???

Like my husband said - if they want to restart the Cold War, why not give them a HOT one instead.

[Principled]

GAME'S UP.

GET IT DONE.

[Timesink]

Fox News: Russian Engineers in Iraq THIS WEEK to help them with RECENTLY-SOLD radar-jamming eqpt

[jwalsh07]

Goodbye Germany, hello Poland.

[ewing]

It wont matter after we drop the e-bomb.

[Herodotus]

Snow referenced a Washington Post piece on that as well. Nothing I could locate on the website; anyone have additional information?

[Terry Mross]

Gotta' wonder, as my wife said, could this "jamming" have had something to do with the helo crashes or do we need to get out the tin foil?

[OpusatFR]

Payback for these countries is going to be a totally nasty affair.

1. France
2. Germany
3. Russia
4. China (no more Chinese goods - Goodbye Walmart!)
5. Canada
6. Belgium

[milestogo]

3 Russian Firms' Deals Anger U.S.
Iraq Purchased Jamming Gear, Missiles, Night-Vision Goggles

[michaelt]

If this was GPS jamming equipment, its a Russian scam.

If this was radar/communications jamming equipment, its a Russian violation of UN resolutions, and US trust.

[CAPPSMADNESS]

GOOD LORD.. GET US OUT OF THE UN now!!!!!!

Kinda sad that we are financially supporting this entity that is trying to destroy us, isn't it?

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U.S. Protests Russian Arms Sales to Iraq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Sunday it had protested to Moscow about reports that Russian firms have sold Iraq antitank missiles, night vision goggles and jamming gear.

A State Department spokeswoman said Moscow's response had not been satisfactory.

U.S. and British forces are fighting Iraq in an effort to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and to find and destroy Iraq's suspected weapons of mass destruction. Iraq has denied it has such weapons.

The Washington Post reported on Sunday that the United States recently delivered a protest to the Russian government for refusing to stop Russian arms dealers from providing illegal weapons and assistance to the Iraqi military.

The newspaper cited Bush administration sources as saying one Russian company was helping the Iraqi military to deploy electronic jamming equipment against U.S. planes and bombs and two others have sold antitank missiles and thousands of night-vision goggles in violation of U.N. sanctions.

The sources told the newspaper Moscow had ignored U.S. concerns about the potential threat to U.S. forces.

"We regard this as a very serious matter," State Department spokeswoman Brenda Greenberg said. "We thus have raised this issue with the Russian government a number of times, including at senior levels and particularly over the past two weeks. The response so far has not been satisfactory.

"We hope that the responsible Russian agencies will take our concerns seriously," she said. "We are very concerned about reports that Russian firms are selling militarily sensitive equipment to Iraq. Such equipment in the hands of the Iraqi military may pose a direct threat to U.S. and coalition armed forces."

Greenberg declined to say if the Washington Post report was accurate, saying she could not discuss intelligence matters.

[smith288]

This story is Biblical in size. Those who fear the Father, pray. Those who don't, I highly suggest you make a trip to the book store and pick up a Bible and read towards the end.

[Terry Mross]

If they have night vision goggles I suppose we no longer "own" the night. I can all see why the resistance is stronger than we expected. Russia should have informed us of what they sold to the enemy. By not informing us they are not the enemy.

[TLBSHOW]

Russia and China are not our friends and never have they ever been friends.

They are the enemy of America. Get America out of the United Nations of commies!

[PhiKapMom]

Just heard that the Russian technicians were there this past week helping the Iraqi's operate this system. Wouldn't surprise me if they are still there.

For anyone that still thinks Putin is a friend of the United States -- think again! Putin put on a friendly face but deep down he is KGB and everyone needs to remember that. Putin cannot be trusted because you can bet that everything in Iraq had approval of the Russian government and was put there to take out American aircraft or on the ground.