Russia provided intelligence to Iraq's government in the opening days of the US-led invasion in 2003, including information that fed Iraqi suspicions that the main US invasion force coming from Kuwait was actually a diversion, a Pentagon report released on Friday stated.
The report said an April 2, 2003, document from the Iraqi minister of foreign affairs to President Saddam Hussein stated that Russian intelligence had reported information on American troops plans to the Iraqis through the Russian ambassador.
The intelligence, the document stated, was that the American forces were moving to cut off Baghdad from the south, east and north, that US bombing would concentrate on Baghdad and that the assault on Baghdad would not begin before around April 15.
In fact, Baghdad fell about a week before that date.
"Significantly, the regime was also receiving intelligence from the Russians that fed suspicions that the attack out of Kuwait was merely a diversion," the report stated.
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