] 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 . . .

Moscow Times: Documents Show Ties to Iraqi Secret Service