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reply posted on 10-1-2004 @ 07:40 PM by SkepticOverlord
More on this story: www.boston.com Evidence cited of Russian arms in Iraq By Paul Richter and Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times, 1/10/2004 WASHINGTON -- US officials have found evidence corroborating White House allegations that Russian companies sold Saddam Hussein high-tech military equipment that threatened US forces during the invasion of Iraq last March, a senior State Department official said yesterday. The official said the United States has found proof that Russian companies exported night-vision goggles and radar-jamming equipment to Iraq, the official said. The evidence includes the equipment itself and proof that it was used during the war, according to the official. Such exports would violate the terms of United Nations sanctions against Iraq. "We have corroborated some of that evidence," the official told a group of reporters. While insisting that the matter is "now in the past," he said that the Bush administration "never received entirely satisfactory explanations" of its charges, and that the issue "is still a sensitive one in the relationship." "It's an issue that, shall we say, did not do much for strengthening trust," the official added.
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