Mar 24, 2006
Oh Crap, Is It True?
Russians Gave Saddam US War Plans; Mole in CentCom Suspected
Man, this is NOT what we need right now. I knew that the French, Germans and Russians were in bed with Hussein before the war, but this is simply outrageous.
One would like to think that this (if true) is just the actions of a single person and not reflective of government policy, but who knows? Could this be the signs of a new “cold” war? *SIGH*
UPDATE:
And again?
Saddam General: Newsweek Translation of Saddam Tapes Wrong
Who knows about this information, but bet a load of this:
[Former Iraqi Air Force Gen. Georges] Sada also says that chemical or biological weapons were flown to Syria in 56 flights, but was unable to confirm it.
General Sada’s allegations are confirmed by others. A Pentagon official, John A. Shaw, who was responsible for keeping track of Iraq’s weapons programs, claims that special Russian troops in civilian clothes supervised the transfer of Saddam’s WMDs into Syria. An Israeli general, Moshe Yaalon, has made a similar claim. The general in charge of Pentagon spy satellites has admitted observing large truck convoys from Iraq to Syria before the war began.
Yikes. I know that there has been certain information about this kind of stuff before, but I hadn’t heard anything about the Russians being involved.
This just proves that Russia is, at best, a neutral. What with their recent totalitarian tendencies, and their support for Iraq and now Iran, Russia is hardly an ally. I’d read about some spetznatz unit helping to ferry the WMDs into Syria, prior to the war. This is very disturbing. But these new revelations about Russia passing on intel to Saddam bode very poorly for American/Russian relations. I don’t know about a new cold war, but Russia, with its amoral foreign policy, is certainly moving in a very different direction than America.