Lots of people are trying to make sense of the disclosures from the released Saddam regime documents, and there's a ton of stuff to read to stay on top of it. (I realize I just put up a post suggesting you read a 200 page book online...I don't claim to know where you'll find the time to do all this reading...I just post it.) Start with Stephen Hayes' latest, Camp Saddam, and then read Bill Tierney's FPM piece on the Saddam Tapes and what he says is the media distortion of their contents already beginning.
A Pentagon report released Friday says that Russia, our purported ally in the War on Terror, was...how best to put it...screwing us over in the lead up to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003:
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.
Denials all around from Russian diplomats, of course. WaPo coverage is pretty good, and Ed Morrissey reacts here and here.
World Magazine has a good summary of disclosures from Iraqi regime documents, and Dan Darling has a new column up at the Standard called Jihad TV. (Brief break permitted here)
Posted by dan at March 26, 2006 10:25 PM