Russia knew Saddam Hussein had planned terror attacks on U.S.

Here is a link to several additional sources on Putins' comments.

I think it is important to point out that Russia supplied Iraq with their cryptographic communications equipment and therefore could have been in a postion to "read" all thir communications.

From Tacitus

Tacitus quoting LA Times

"This information was more than once passed on to our American partners in oral and written form in the fall of 2002," said the source, about whose identity Interfax gave no details. He said there existed a "direct threat to the U.S. from the Saddam Hussein regime."

Quoting The Times of Oman

Putin said Moscow knew that “official organs of the Saddam regime were preparing terrorist attacks on the territory of the United States, as well as foreign military and civilian US targets”.

“After the September 11, 2001, events, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, the Russian special services repeatedly received this type of information, and handed it over to our American colleagues,” Putin said at a regional summit in the capital of Kazakhstan.
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