Putin says Iraq planned US attack

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Tuesday June 22, 2004 16:43

by Zloty

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that after the 9/11 attacks Moscow warned Washington that Saddam Hussein was planning attacks on the US

He said Russia's secret service had information on more than one occasion that Iraq was preparing acts of terror in the US and its facilities worldwide.

Mr Putin said he had no information the Iraqi ex-leader was behind any attacks.

It came a day after US President George W Bush insisted there had been links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.

He disputed the preliminary findings of a US commission investigating the 9/11 attacks on Washington and New York that found no "credible evidence" of a relationship between the two.

Surprise remarks

Speaking on a visit to Kazakhstan, Mr Putin said Russia had warned the US on several occasions that Iraq was planning "terrorist attacks" on its soil.

"After the events of 11 September 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, Russian special services several times received such information and passed it on to their American colleagues," he told reporters.

He said the information received by Russian intelligence suggested Iraq was planning attacks in the United States, "and beyond its borders on American military and civilian targets".

But he said it did not change Russia's opposition to the war in Iraq.

"Despite that information... Russia's position on Iraq remains unchanged," he said.

He added: "It is one thing to have information that (Saddam) Hussein's regime was preparing acts of terrorism - we did have this information and we handed it over.

"But we did not have information that they were involved in any terrorist acts whatsoever and, after all, these are two different things."

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"Iraq was preparing acts of terror "

by pc

Tue Jun 22, 2004 16:46

wouldn't that be acts of war?

Sounds like it

by Magister Ludi

Tue Jun 22, 2004 17:10

Looks like a certain casus belli to me. Notice how quiet the meejia has been about it?

Putin ate my hamster.

by sorely aggrieved.

Tue Jun 22, 2004 17:14

Why does he say this now?

by Annoyed

Wed Jun 23, 2004 02:53

Why does he have to let Bush off the hook like this?

This is the state Department calling...

by le figaro

Wed Jun 23, 2004 13:39

Come on Vlad me ole buddy,
i'll cut you a real good deal for the chechnya campaign ... just back us up a little on.. err.. Iraq.
Hows about a few stingers and a couple of our stress and duress guys to teach your boys the new rules,
Hows about it Vlad, Got some Human rights ISSUES? we can make them go away
just be our friend.
Contracts?..
yeah sure, we can do contracts.....
No problem, just tell everyone you like us, and were the good guys! OK?

Tvanks to state dept

by KGB guy

Thu Jun 24, 2004 14:12

But ve kan handvle any cheevky muslims overselves. Just see Grozny rnd 2.No pussyfootin with police actions.Reduce city to rubble, kill all,easy Da....?Ve could teech your Yankee interragators a thing on tvo .Ve just use Serbs,they are too nazty for the glorious KGB...er...FSB! Human righs issues.......What human rviths issues?
Stingers?Bah...we already have stolen your new designs..Well...you gave them to us actually.Have new Strella...much better
Regds
Ivan

it must be lies

by tunnel vision

Thu Jun 24, 2004 18:38

i believe everything bad about bush and nothing good, it must lies, it cant be true, my existence as a hatemonger, my sole purpose of being anti/establishment, my big fat risk free guilt free target would all be taken away...it must be lies...

c'mon tunnel vision

by Voice of Reason

Thu Jun 24, 2004 19:31

c'mon tunnel vision, you have to admit it is strange timing by Vlad. When is the last time the USA mentioned Chechnya?

true true

by neo-vision

Thu Jun 24, 2004 19:52

its all true. the iraqis were bombing...thinking of bombing..ok, attacking....well, thinking of attacking, in some form, at any rate...the United States...or, somewhere in....some unspecified area within US jurisdiction....er, US control....maybe

or so we have heard...from some unspecified source...some Intelligence source...some unspecified Russian....a source close to Russian intelligence...maybe

only a complete left-wing nutter could argue with 'facts' like these

To be forewarned

by Left wing nutcracker

Fri Jun 25, 2004 02:25

is to be forearmed.

Lefties would rather wait intil the tanks are rolling through their streets before they capitulate and collaborate with their new overlords.

Live free or die folks, that's the way it is.

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