From Bill Gertz in The Washington Times::
2 Russian generals given awards in Iraq on war eve
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"The mission and the reason the generals received the awards were not disclosed in the April 2, 2003, report. However, Gen. Achalov told the newspaper that he 'didn't fly to Baghdad to drink coffee.'"
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"John A. Shaw, deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said this week that two European intelligence services have obtained documentary evidence indicating Russian spetsnaz, or special forces, troops were involved in a covert program to shred documents on Russian arms sales to Iraq, and to move weapons out of the country to Syria, Lebanon and possibly Iran. "
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Interesting the Russian generals were photographed with Saddam’s chief of staff Izzat Ibrahim... IIRC, Izzat is the red headed general who merged his intel people with Zarqawi’s to form Al Qaeda in the Land between the rivers later a/k/a ISIS.