State Department claims Russia provided Iraq with war aid

[dudeness]

By Paul Richter and Kim Murphy
Los Angeles Times




WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say they have found evidence corroborating the Bush administration's allegations that Russian companies sold Saddam Hussein high-tech military equipment that threatened U.S. forces during the invasion of Iraq last March.
A senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said yesterday that Russian companies exported night-vision goggles and radar-jamming equipment to Iraq. The evidence includes the equipment itself and proof that it was used during the war, according to the official. The official declined to elaborate on what the proof is.

Such exports would violate the terms of United Nations sanctions against Iraq.

While insisting that the matter is "now in the past," the official acknowledged the issue "is still a sensitive one."

snip...http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001833846_goggles10.html


oh my...

[salin]

1. Still waiting for the disclosure that Cheney and Halliburton

who used a bush connected company and new subsidiary - Dresser Industries - to go around UN Sanctions (and, I believe, US law) and do big business with Iraq - to enable Iraq to rebuild its oil infrastructure (and get that CASH flowing back into the country... enabling Saddam to secure such imports) - and thus assisted Saddam.

[leesa]

2. Well, they were being illegally invaded. They were disarmed and

compliant with UN resolution. If Russia did this, they were morally in the right.