Russia spied for Iraq - paper

[Aviyah]

Sunday, April 13, 2003 Posted: 3:32 PM EDT (1932 GMT

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Documents discovered in Iraq indicate Russia helped Saddam Hussein's intelligence services in the months leading up to the war, according to a British newspape

Moscow passed on information gathered from western countries about the determination of the United States and Britain to launch military action, The Sunday Telegraph reported.

A spokesman for the Russian foreign intelligence service declined to comment on the Sunday Telegraph story, telling CNN: "We do not comment on unsubstantiated and unfounded assertions."




hmm sounds like russia got caught with thier hand in the cookie jar :eek,of course they dont want to comment they know they got egg on thier face now heres a snipit of what we found

One of the choicest things we found was evidence that the Russians spied on [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair and passed the information on to the Iraqis. I discovered a report that discussed sending troops to Iraq. This was dated from March 5 of last year

The conversation recorded by the Russians -- presumably illegally -- concerned the sending of troops to Iraq. Tony Blair told the Italian Prime Minister Sylvio Berlusconi he was not prepared to do this while Britain still had troops in Afghanistan ... th

Harrison said he also saw reports about conversations between U.S. President George W. Bush and leaders of other countries about his willingness to go to war and how important it was for Iraq to comply with U.N. resolutions on disarmament.

more can be found here

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/13/sprj.irq.russia.spy/index.html