US believes Russians in baghdad aiding Iraq

kamobe

This is on Ireland.com breaking news. I dont have a subscription though!!! Could anyone paste the story???

kamobe

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19486-2003Mar24.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States believes Russian company technicians are in Baghdad helping the Iraqis operate electronic jamming systems that could impair the U.S.-led war against Iraq, a U.S. official said on Monday.

Googled it.

Hobbes

hardly breaking news. Go to google and check thier news section.

Russia have already told them they are full of crap, so the balls in the US court to show actual proof. Oh the stuff they said they found is sold to the US and being used by the US.

Hmmm, and the US today also got one of thier spy planes an escort of Russian fighters to tell it to leave Russian airspace.

All this around the same that Russia is fielding a motion in the UN to declare the war in Iraq unjust. Hmmm, well at least they aren't French or they could be in real trouble.

bonkey

Originally posted by Hobbes
so the balls in the US court to show actual proof.

C'mon Hobbes. You know better than that.

The ball is in the US court to say that they have unequivocal proof that they can't show to us for reasons of protecting their sources.

Show actual proof? Are you mad? What a strange notion

jc

Well considering the way the US is going they might decide to not bother producing any proof, and just try to bully their way through..

Éomer of Rohan

What is the problem with Russians advising the Iraqi regime? Since when did Russian foreign policy revolve around America? Anyone ever heard of the multipolarity agreements? It is their right as a sovereign nation and it does not mean that Russia is allying herself to Iraq, simply 'advising' - as US officials have done in countless wars, killinig countless peoples.

Victor

Originally posted by Éomer of Rohan
What is the problem with Russians advising the Iraqi regime? Since when did Russian foreign policy revolve around America? Anyone ever heard of the multipolarity agreements? It is their right as a sovereign nation and it does not mean that Russia is allying herself to Iraq, simply 'advising' - as US officials have done in countless wars, killinig countless peoples.

There is a difference between advising and breaking the sanctions by supplying equipment.

Then again the USA and UK are moving lots of military equipment into Iraq.

JustHalf

Originally posted by Éomer of Rohan
What is the problem with Russians advising the Iraqi regime? Since when did Russian foreign policy revolve around America? Anyone ever heard of the multipolarity agreements? It is their right as a sovereign nation and it does not mean that Russia is allying herself to Iraq, simply 'advising' - as US officials have done in countless wars, killinig countless peoples.

Sorry, I can't find an argument in here. You jump all over the place.

Can you join the dots for me please?

Hobbes

Hmm, I wonder if the US will get all upset with England now that they have found illegal weapons sold by the UK?

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=353552003

Victor

Originally posted by Hobbes
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=353552003

"but our records show that we never supplied such goods to that country."

A lot will depend on the age of these items and what they actually are (the article doesn't say). If they date from the 1980s, they were quite possibly legally bought on the black / grey market or were (legal) booty from Iran (as soem items appear to have been) or Kuwait.

Dr_Teeth

I read another article, I think on the BBC website that said the munitions from that Wallop company were smoke grenades sold to Kuwait and seized by the Iraqis in '91.

Teeth.