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  • Putin Offers Hand to Bush in U.S. Election

    10/18/2004 5:07:29 AM PDT · by SheLion · 35 replies · 1,235+ views
    yahoo.com ^ | 10-18-04 | Denis Dyomkin
    DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, siding with President Bush two weeks before the U.S. election, said Monday that armed attacks in Iraq were staged by "international terrorism" out to block his re-election. "The attacks of international terrorism in Iraq are directed not only at international coalition forces but at President Bush personally," said Putin, speaking in the Tajik capital. "International terrorism has given itself the goal of causing maximum damage to Bush in the election battle, the goal of blocking the re-election of Bush for a second presidential term," he told a news conference. Putin's comments, ahead...