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[Previous entry: "419"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "The Puce of Clubs"] 18 April 2003: "The Can of Worms III"Following on from last Sunday's report in The Observer (which I mentioned here), the San Francisco Chronicle reports Russia admits providing training to the Iraqi security services: A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Boris Labusov, acknowledged that Iraqi secret police agents had been trained by his agency but said the training was for nonmilitary purposes, such as fighting crime and terrorism.Define "crime and terrorism," товарищ. What part of "violation of UNSC resolutions" do you not understand? I have to say the Chronicle is more than a little obnoxious about the affair; they claim the discovery of the training certificates was a Chronicle "exclusive" (which, given that the Observer ran the story in print probably some 8 hours earlier, is obviously bollocks) and suggest that Labusov's admission was all their work as well, until you head down the page and discover Labusov's statement was made to Andrey Soldatov, "director of Agentura, a Moscow-based journalism organization that uses the Internet to disseminate information about Russian intelligence services." Nevertheless, the can opener on the Can of Worms has been given another twist. (Link to the SFC article via Counterpoint.) |
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