Posted on 03/24/2006 7:20:20 AM PST by b2stealth
The full documents can be found on the U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Office Web site: http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/products-docex.htm.
Note: Document titles were added by ABC News.
"U.S. War Plan Leaked to Iraqis by Russian Ambassador"
Two Iraqi documents from March 2003 — on the eve of the U.S.-led invasion — and addressed to the secretary of Saddam Hussein, describe details of a U.S. plan for war. According to the documents, the plan was disclosed to the Iraqis by the Russian ambassador.
Document written sometime before March 5, 2003
The first document (CMPC-2003-001950) is a handwritten account of a meeting with the Russian ambassador that details his description of the composition, size, location and type of U.S. military forces arrayed in the Gulf and Jordan. The document includes the exact numbers of tanks, armored vehicles, different types of aircraft, missiles, helicopters, aircraft carriers, and other forces, and also includes their exact locations. The ambassador also described the positions of two Special Forces units.
Document dated March 25, 2003
The second document (CMPC-2004-001117) is a typed account, signed by Deputy Foreign Minister Hammam Abdel Khaleq, that states that the Russian ambassador has told the Iraqis that the United States was planning to deploy its force into Iraq from Basra in the South and up the Euphrates, and would avoid entering major cities on the way to Baghdad, which is, in fact what happened. The documents also state "Americans are also planning on taking control of the oil fields in Kirkuk." The information was obtained by the Russians from "sources at U.S. Central Command in Doha, Qatar," according to the document.
This document also includes an account of an amusing incident in which several Iraqi Army officers (presumably seeking further elaboration of the U.S. war plans) contacted the Russian Embassy in Baghdad and stated that the ambassador was their source. Needless to say, this caused great embarrassment to the ambassador, and the officers were instructed "not to mention the ambassador again in that context."
(Editor's Note: The Russian ambassador in March 2003 was Vladimir Teterenko. Teterenko appears in documents released by the Volker Commission, which investigated the Oil for Food scandal, as receiving allocations of 3 million barrels of oil — worth roughly $1.5 million. )
Where are all our favorite Russian apologist friends here?
Can't seem to find A. Pole of them.
That's just so f*&#ing typical... the most significant piece of information in this whole f*&#ing article is just tacked unto the very bottom in an Editor's Note.
Well, I don't consider myself a freakin' Russian apologist, and I certainly loathe what they did in Iraq, but has anyone mentioned what we did to them in Afganistan in the 80s? How did those muhajadin get they shoulder-fired stingers that shot down those Hind helicopters?
I realize it's a bit of an apples-and-oranges analogy, but the point is I think these things go on all the time. I, personally, am shocked by the apparent lack of better pre-war security measures on our part.
Yeah, right, comparing COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP with U.S.?? Are you nuts? Let's know think of what we did with Nazis????
IMHO they worried that their Baghdad to Bekaa convoy strategy would be at risk...
>Where are all our favorite Russian apologist friends here?
They HAVE BEEN PROVEN to lie!!! Sorry KGBloving b***rds.
Your talking, supposedly, about a different government and a different state. The current Russia is, supposedly, not the USSR.
I think they took Saddam WMD or major parts of it in that convoy..
The question has been asked repeatedly...Why has the Bush admin been so reticent to trumpet the translations of the Iraqi docs? These documents vindicate the Admin to a large extent, yet they're hardly mentioning them. Why?
The answer, I believe, is the extent to which these documents are going to implicate Russia and "Pootie Poot". It appears that the admin is of the opinion that Russian co-operation is needed to nail Iran...that co-operation does not appear to be forthcoming at present...
Is the evidence accumulated in Iraq the weapon of choice to force Russian compliance or co-operation?
Although fingers will be pointed at the Bush Administration, any of our allies that took part with troops in the initial assault would probably have gotten this information when they were coordinating. That would be Great Britain, Australia and Poland.
>Your talking, supposedly, about a different government >and a different state. The current Russia is, supposedly, >not the USSR.
Yeah - they are now "controlled democracy" :)
OK, call me dumb, but how in the hell did Russia get these war plans, any guesses, I got one, someone in the CIA gave them away.
Wanda Metzger
New Orleans
How long before the usual suspects come and tell us were "anti-russian" and "pro-terrorist." Who? Hint: They all have Russky brides.
This is covered in Tommy Franks book, American Soldier.
As they where developing the war plan, then refered to as OPLAN (Operations Plan) 1003, they would deliberatly old and out dated versions of the plan to sources, they refered to an agent called "april fool", who would pass the disinformation to Saddams command and control.
There was a very active disinformation wing at Centcom that passed old and out of date plans to provide the enemy with a false narative to the information before them.
We probably gave the russians the plan. To force them into taking our attack seriously so they would not try any further UN shenanigans but would try to talk Saddam into quitting.
Yeah, but this was not an "old, outdated" leak to Iraqis, it was Russian sources inside Central Command!
KGB & SVR are working 24/7 to undermine America in everything from these plans to HAMAS.
Next time Russia protests something in UN - remember this..
That would be incredibly stupid to actually give them our REAL plans..
Yeah, if they did give something, it might have been A plan but not THE plan.
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