[bg]

Russia had people infiltrated in the very early days of the Iraqi
Campaign and was passing info on troop movements to
Hussein..>
http://www.yahoo.com/s/283906

The Russians relayed information to Saddam during the opening days of the 2003 war, including a crucial moment before the assault on Baghdad, according to the documents in the report Friday.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. For me
this is just an lil too close. Maybe this needs to go to APS
instead of here, but some of us have people over there.

[TexasRifleman]

This is surprising?

Heck we're even spied on heavily by our "friends", namely Israel.

Always assume someone is watching and listening....

[Standing Wolf]

Well, heck. We're spying on ourselves, so why shouldn't the Russians, too?

[bg]

Darn it SW, I must learn not to have a drink of something
before I read your posts. Once again I have to dry out the
keyboard and clean off the moniter. :D

[wally]

Some of it that I've seen come out appears to have been disinformation -- our plan was not to occupy cities. Kuwait was a feignt, the real invasion was comming from the north.

--wally.

[telomerase]

We're spying on ourselves, so why shouldn't the Russians, too?

But US spy agencies are bureaucratic and inefficient. We don't want spying on Americans to be outsourced to harder-working private companies or foreigners!

[Hawkmoon]

While I find myself wondering just why the Russian ambassador to Iraq had access to our plans (and from what I read, his information was mostly accurate), I am at least partially comforted that his leaking said plans to Saddam was apparently NOT sanctioned by the Kremlin, and the guy was somewhat upset when early memos linked intelligence to him as the source.

Obviously, though, the Russians cannot be trusted with confidential information.

[Lennyjoe]

Didn't make a difference if they told Saddam or not. We still kicked his arse with airpower to the point where most of his army didn't want to fight. ;)

[CAnnoneer]

Who isn't spying on us or messing with us these days?

The Israeli have been doing that forever.
For the Russkies, it is a cold-war habit.
The Chinese keep stealing harddrives from our laboratories.
Wasn't James Bond British?
The French have Johnny Depp and Guinneth Paltrow.
The Germans unpimp our autos...:)

[offthepaper]

Don't worry folks.
Everyone can take a collective sigh of relief in the fact that the recipe for KFC is still Top Secret.:evil:

[Biker]

LennyJoe...
It's my opinion that the Iraqi Army never intended to put up a real fight. The plan was to melt, then come back and fight an G war.
That was their only hope to win, and I'm sure Hussein's military advisors knew it.
Biker

[Lennyjoe]

I'm sure your pretty accurate on that Biker. They knew they couldn't win a war heads up.

[tellner]

We spy on our friends, real friends, not friends in quotation marks. They spy on us. That is how the world has always worked.

[seeker_two]

The French have Johnny Depp and Guinneth Paltrow.


Well, that's ONE thing going in our favor... :p