Russia 'Warning' on Saddam Puzzles U.S.

[benfranklin1776]

"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.

State Department spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters he did not know
anything about the information that Putin said Russia passed on. No such information
was communicated from Russia through the State Department, he said.

"Everybody's scratching their heads," said one State Department official, who
asked not to be named.

But the Kremlin leader's comments seemed certain to bolster Bush, whose
campaign for re-election in November is under pressure from the Iraq crisis."
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http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=880933&tw=wn_wire_story

Gee the warning must have been secret too being as how no one remembers receiving it.

This part restates the obvious rather succinctly : "The Kremlin's leader's comments seemed certain to bolster Bush"

[MikeG]

1. It was communicated when Bush "looked into his soul."

[Moderator]

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