] Late last month, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported that ] Russian intelligence agents had been sent to Baghdad to ] gather archives of the Iraqi secret service in case ] Hussein's regime fell. ] ] The San Francisco Chronicle reported that documents found ] in the secret police office show that at least five Iraqi ] agents graduated Sept. 15, 2002, from a two-week course ] in surveillance and eavesdropping techniques at the ] Special Training Center in Moscow. ] ] Graduation certificates from the center bear the ] double-eagle symbol of the Russian Federation, but the ] newspaper said it was not clear if the training center ] was a government agency If it's verified that the Russian government was training Iraqi intelligence agents, this could well be a "smoking gun" of Russia violating U.N. sanctions. Not that that would be particularly surprising . . . |