Russia Warned of Iraq Terror Attacks
Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 7:47:21 am PDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russian intelligence warned the United States that Saddam Hussein was planning terror attacks in the US—after September 11: Putin Says Russia Warned U.S. on Saddam. (Hat tip: Power Line.)
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, in comments sure to help President Bush, declared Friday that Russia knew Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had planned terror attacks on U.S. soil and had warned Washington.
Putin said Russian intelligence had been told on several occasions that Saddam’s special forces were preparing to attack U.S. targets inside and outside the United States.
“After the events of September 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, Russian special services several times received information that the official services of the Saddam regime were preparing ‘terrorist acts’ on the United States and beyond its borders,” he told reporters.
“This information was passed on to our American colleagues,” he said. He added, however, that Russian intelligence had no proof that Saddam’s agents had been involved in any particular attack.
