BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Russian government had sources inside the American military command as the U.S. mounted the invasion of Iraq, and the Russians passed information to Saddam Hussein on troop movements and plans, according to Iraqi documents released as part of a Pentagon report.
The Russians relayed information to Saddam during the opening days of the 2003 war, including a crucial moment before the assault on Baghdad, according to the documents in the report Friday.
The unclassified report does not assess the value of the information or provide details beyond citing two captured Iraqi documents that say the Russians collected information from sources "inside the American Central Command" and that battlefield intelligence was provided to Saddam through the Russian ambassador in Baghdad.
A classified version of the Pentagon report, titled "Iraqi Perspectives Project," is not being made public.
Not very surprising. Things like this have been rumored before, but now that those rumors have been confirmed it is a whole new ballgame.
I wonder the leftists will say as more and more international opposition to the war in Iraq is exposed as being tied more to a desire to cover up shady dealings with Saddam Hussein than a desire to oppose "unilateral war" and "American imperialism?"