"HVAC" <MR.HVAC@gmail.com> wrote in message
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And tell that Russian ***** that Harlow Fucking
Campbell
told you to do it!
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As American troops moved toward
Iraq, Saddam
Hussein was receiving information about U.S. battle
strategy and troop
movements from a Russian ambassador, according to a
Pentagon report
released Friday.
The Russians claimed they obtained the information
from sources inside
the U.S. Central Command headquarters in Doha, Qatar,
and conveyed it
to Hussein via the Russian ambassador to Iraq, the
report states.
Brig. Gen. Anthony Cucolo, one of the Pentagon
officials who helped put
the report together, was quick to say that there was
no indication the
Russians had a spy inside Central Command.
Also, key details provided to Hussein by the Russians
were wrong -- not
that it would've mattered because the Iraqi dictator
ignored the
intelligence in formulating his losing war strategy,
Cucolo said.
Word of Russian-Iraqi collaboration came as part of
an analysis by U.S.
Joint Forces Command, which looked at combat
operations from an Iraqi
perspective as a tool for shaping future U.S.
operations. An
unclassified version of the analysis was released
Friday.
Thousands of Iraqi documents and postwar interviews
with more than a
dozen Iraqi officials, not including Hussein,
provided the basis for
the report.
One of those documents, the report states, came five
days after the
invasion of Iraq -- March 24, 2003 -- and was sent to
Hussein by the
Russians.
It warned that as U.S. forces moved north from
neighboring Kuwait,
troops would bypass Iraqi cities and instead occupy
the countryside,
thereby isolating the rest of the country from its
western border,
according to the report.
The Russians further told Hussein that the U.S.
Army's 4th Infantry
Division, which was not allowed to stage its invasion
from Turkey as
hoped, would move into the country from the west via
Jordan.
On April 2, 2003, Iraq's foreign minister sent a memo
to Hussein
telling him he had been given more information from
the Russian
ambassador in Baghdad, the report states. The memo
said that U.S.
forces would not invade Baghdad until after the 4th
Infantry Division
arrived, which would be sometime around April 15.
That intelligence proved wrong.
U.S. troops already were approaching the capital and
took the Baghdad
International Airport the next day. A week later,
Baghdad itself fell,
and the 4th Infantry Division was still on board
ships in the eastern
Mediterranean Sea.
You don't suppose that the Ruskies were given
misinformation?
If their intelligence was as good as their weapons, it
sucked.
H.
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