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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (209066)	10/28/2004 10:53:44 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573850

Who to believe? Russian Defense, Foreign Ministry Refute Reports on Smuggling Iraqi Arms Created: 28.10.2004 16:09 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:09 MSK, 2 hours 42 minutes ago MosNews Russian Defence and Foreign Ministry officials have refuted US media reports that the Russian special forces transferred Saddam Hussein’s weapons and equipment out of Iraq and into Syria. The information on these operations appeared in The Washington Times. John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, quoted by the paper, said Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, “almost certainly” removed the high-explosive material weeks before the U.S.-led military operation began in the country in March 2003. Some of those weapons were made in Russia. Vyacheslav Sedov, the head of the Russian Defence Ministry’s press service, quoted by Interfax news agency, said “one cannot regard such reports as other than far-fetched and ridiculous.” “I state officially that the Russian Defence Ministry and its structural subdivisions cannot have any involvement in the disappearance of the explosives, as Russian troops had left Iraq long before the start of the US-British operation in that country,” he said. Russian Foreign Ministry official in charge of Iraq, Ilya Morgunov, quoted by the agency said these reports “greatly surprised” him. “Let them remain on the conscience of those who circulate them,” he said. He personally had witnessed events that preceded the start of the military operation in Iraq. “I did not hear about any removal of munitions. Moreover, there was no-one here to do it because we had evacuated practically all our personnel,” Morgunov said. In the first days of the war, only a small group of Russians headed by the ambassador remained in Baghdad, and they too soon left the country, he added. “There were no Russian special forces in Iraq. Only civilian experts from Russia and other CIS countries worked there for companies whose names everyone knows,” the agency quoted him as saying.