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Russia Denies Sharing US Invasion Plans With Iraq
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Pentagon report says battlefield intelligence was provided to Saddam
Hussein through Russian ambassador in Baghdad Russia has denied a U.S.
Defense Department report that says Moscow provided information on
U.S. troop movements and plans to Iraqi officials during the 2003
invasion of Iraq.

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service officials described the report
Saturday as baseless.

An unclassified Pentagon report released Friday cites two captured
Iraqi documents that say the Russians collected information from
sources "inside the American Central Command" in Doha, Qatar. The
report says battlefield intelligence was provided to then-Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein through the Russian ambassador in Baghdad.

Pentagon officials say some of the intelligence was false and
contributed to Iraq's failures in the early weeks of the war. The
report did not say whether the false information was deliberately
leaked.

The report concludes that even after U.S.-led coalition forces had
begun their invasion, Iraqi leaders believed they would remain in
power.

The U.S. military report was an attempt to recreate how the Iraqi
government viewed the approach of war.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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