Russian organization was training Iraqi spies, documents show (more info from Iraqi documents)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | April 13, 2003 | Robert Collier and Bill Wallace

[FairOpinion]

A Moscow-based organization was training Iraqi intelligence agents as recently as last September -- at the same time Russia was resisting the Bush administration's push for a tough stand against Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi documents discovered by The Chronicle show.

[FairOpinion]

"Russia," he said, "has a lot of interests in that part of the world."

I bet they do!!!

This is not getting any better for Russia.

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[Illbay]

I wonder why Russia has been so buddy-buddy with Saddam.

It's obviously not religious affinity--Russia's Muslim minority have been nothing but trouble since the USSR collapsed.

They don't need their oil.

What is it? "Birds of a Feather?"

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP* ! I bet the Russkies are behind a lot more than training some Iraqi spies. A lot more.

[nopardons]

The more we find, the worse it may get. This is NOT good !

[SevenofNine]

OH OH seem tonight is not very good for VLAD tonight after UK Sunday Telegraph busted him about him and the Russians are Spy on Tony Blair

NICE GOIN VLAD

I wonder this week is Russia is punching bag Next week it could BE FRANCE

[FairOpinion]

I wonder why Russia has been so buddy-buddy with Saddam.
They don't need their oil.
What is it? "Birds of a Feather?"

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Actually they DO need the oil, not necessarly for themselves, but if they could control the oil in the ME, which is 70% of the world's oil supply, they could literally control the world, by blackmailing countries into doing what they want.

If Iraq would have gotten usable nukes, then Russia, through Iraq could contol the ME.

I just came across another article, which says, that they found more documents showing that all the Iraqi secret agents were trained in Russia, which means, that Russia could really have been the one running Iraq, with Saddam as the figurehead.

Here is the link to the article I mentioned.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/892059/posts

[faithincowboys]

yet our french and german socialist allies remain friends with Saddam. their is simply no morality to that troika.

I wonder if the iraqi scientist's german wife is east or west german and if she has WMD expertise???

[bonfire]

I am thinking they were the group of "fighters" in Baghdad that the reporters weren't supposed to talk about.

[Theresa]

I am sorry to say it but this is nothing much. After a while we are going to chum up to Russia again. I don't like it but I expect it. France is another matter.

[FairOpinion]

Sorry, I meant the mention the other article, which first mentioned the close ties between Iraq & Russia

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/891912/posts

and just keeps getting worse.

Russia wasn't helping Iraq out of the goodness of their hearts, not was giving billions of dollars worth of stuff to them "on credit".

As I said, I am getting more convinced that the Saddam regime was Russia's puppet government and they were getting ready for the time, when Saddam, therefore Russia would control the ME. The easy way Iraq fell, also makes more sense with this assumption.

And I bet that if we had waited another year, it would have been too late.

[nopardons]

That Axis of Weasels is a worry.

Oh, EAST, I'd bet, if I were a betting woman. LOL

[FairOpinion]

"Those of us who wanted to believe in the good-natured soul of Pootie-Poot are increasingly disappointed. "

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You and me both.

[faithincowboys]

The 9-11 Hamburg cell and the under investigated short selling and all that we are now finding out might fit together in a terrible way!!

[nopardons]

We'll be getting dribs & drabs of info, for YEARS. Most here, won't be " shocked "; I'd wager. :-)

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #3

Saddam's regime is a socialist regime, with long connection to Russia since the days of the Soviet Union.

Russia cannot refuse another source of abundant oil in Iraq, which is pretty cheap to extract unlike Russian oil. Luk Oil of Russia had a multibillion dollar oil contract with Saddam's regime.

Middle East has always been where Russians/Soviets would love to bleed America using their proxies, hoping to cutting down American power. It is still the same game even if the Russia is far weaker than the Soviet Union.

Apparently Putin gambled that Russia can take cheap oil and bring down the lone superpower by a few notches. This really disappoints me as well. Russians have been overplaying their hands, encouraged by anti-American Franco-German axis.

Now Russia's gamble failed.

[faithincowboys]

do you remember recently seeing one of putin's lietenants give a press conference in front of curtains with Lenin's head on them-- a sign that we can't ignore. All the left worries about our administration and allows putin's creepy junta to operate without criticism. The russians now have a free media (or at least internet cafes) and this could destroy putin!!