Russina spy data may have been part of US deception plan

Rowan Scarborough:

Moscow had informants inside U.S. Central Command whose information on the March 2003 invasion of Iraq was relayed to dictator Saddam Hussein days before American troops ousted him from power, according to a Defense Department history released yesterday.
And, as U.S. troops encircled Baghdad in April, Russia's ambassador fed information from Moscow's intelligence service to Saddam's regime regarding U.S. troop movements.
The new disclosures show that Moscow was working against the Bush administration in private, as it opposed in public the U.S. desire for a United Nations Security Council resolution explicitly authorizing the invasion.

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"The information that the Russians have collected from their sources inside the American Central Command in Doha [Qatar] is that the United States is convinced that occupying Iraqi cities are impossible, and that they have changed their tactic," states the Iraq intelligence report. Another part states, "Jordan had accepted the American 4th Mechanized Infantry Division." (Emphasis added.)
Although U.S. forces did avoid occupying towns and cities on the march to Baghdad, they did enter Tikrit, Mosul and other large cities. But as for Jordan, the 4th Infantry Division never docked there, instead traveling by sea to Kuwait.
The Forces Command report offered no information on whether Central Command ever identified and purged the spies.

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The highlighted portion above was part of a deliberate deception plan Gen. Tommy Franks used to keep Iraq from masses all its forces on the invasion route. He had earlier kept the division in the Mediterain for an additional 24 hours to make it look like the Turkey invasion routes was still in play. He had also hinted to those he knew were in contact with Saddam that the main invasion would probably come from Jordon. My speculation is that he used the Russians to feed the misinformation to Saddam.

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A seized Dec. 15, 2002, memo, written by an Iraqi intelligence agent posing as a U.N. escort, states, "Inside Bader WMD inspection site, there are Russian and Turkish scientists. When we visited the site, they were forced to hide from inspectors' eyes."
And, Saddam continued to tell his commanders he still had such weapons. "For him, there were real dividends to be gained by letting his enemies believe he possessed WMD, whether it was true or not," the report said.

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More evidence reveals the idiocy of the "Bush lied" nonsense coming from the anti war left.