[lbo-talk] scritti politi

[Jim Devine]

from the WaPo's on-line SLATE summary of today's major US newspaper,
by Daniel Politi:
>The Washington Post leads with, the Los Angeles Times fronts, and the
New York Times reefers revelations that Russian officials passed on
intelligence about U.S. war plans and troop movements to Iraqi leaders
in the early days of the American invasion. It seems the Russians
might have had a spy inside the U.S. Central Command. ...  The Russian
spying allegations were included in a 210-page study based on Iraqi
documents and interviews with former leaders. Even though some of the
information that was passed on was inaccurate, and it is unclear
whether the Kremlin approved the operation, if the allegations are
true it will almost certainly further strain the relationship between
Washington and Moscow. "This is one step short of firing upon us
themselves … It's hard to get more unfriendly than that," an analyst
tells the LAT. The NYT mentions that since some of the information was
false, it raises the possibility that the Russians might have been
part of a U.S. military effort to fool Iraqi leaders. <

is this related to the (faux?) Russian spy agency reports that were so
notoriously inaccurate during the early stages of the U.S. Heroic
Conquest of Iraq three years ago?

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