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Russia gave the Bush administration intelligence after the September 11 attacks that suggested Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq was preparing attacks in the United States, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.


ASTANA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States on several occasions that Iraq's Saddam Hussein planned "terrorist attacks" on its soil, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
"After the events of September 11, 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.

The Kremlin leader, who was speaking in the Kazakh capital, said Russian intelligence services had many times received information that Saddam's special forces were preparing terrorist attacks in the United States "and beyond its borders on American military and civilian targets."

"This information was conveyed to our American colleagues," he said. He added that Russian intelligence had no proof that Saddam agents had been involved in any particular attack.

Russia had diplomatic relations with Saddam's Iraq and opposed the U.S.-led military offensive that toppled him.

Putin's comments come after President Bush was forced to defend his charge that there had been links between Saddam and al Qaeda that partly justified the U.S.-led invasion.



http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/410014|top|06-18-2004::08:05|reuters.html

Just another one of MANY reasons why we are there.

See who can spin this first?

Place your bets here.

Thanks for the information Kelly. For some reason news like this doesn't make the headlines. Now why wouldn't the media air this story? Oh I forgot, lol. They're hell bent on tearing Bush down, not letting info supporting him out.
...Jennifer...

FYI, I first heard about this on CNN and it was the very first item that they talked about. And the way they put it over put President Bush in a very good light.

Liberal media?

I have not heard it "abajan".

I did. ABC News Radio mentioned it. Was 2nd behind the hostage story(before he was executed) earlier.

abajan wrote:FYI, I first heard about this on CNN and it was the very first item that they talked about. And the way they put it over put President Bush in a very good light.

Liberal media?

I'm not surprised it was talked about on CNN. It's a big story and of course they have to mention it. I rarely watch CNN so I do wonder how much it has been discussed though.

Liberal media? If that's a question for anyone, ummm...yeah. Absolutely, no doubt about it.