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| Iraq-Cuba axis |
| 2004-01-23 |
| A senior Defense Department official tells us one of the alarming after-action intelligence reports that reached the Pentagon is that the communist government of Cuba shared intelligence on the United States with Saddam Hussein’s regime. The reports stated that Cuban intelligence, which is known to have extensive "coverage" of U.S. military bases, supplied information to Saddam’s intelligence service on the movement of troops and other military activities. The intelligence ties are believed to be an offshoot of Cuba’s covert oil-purchasing arrangement with Iraq under Saddam. Those deals have been under way since the late 1990s and involve oil tankers that were sent to Mexico. The oil then was pumped from the tankers to smaller boats for delivery to Cuba. The intelligence sharing also comes amid reports from Cuban exiles that Cuba became a safe haven for fleeing Iraqi government officials following the U.S.-led invasion. Asked about the Cuba-Iraq intelligence-sharing, a second U.S. official said the CIA had no information about it. |
| Posted by:Yosemite Sam |
| #5 You mean this is news? I thought it was self-evident Fidel Castro would share intelligence with Hussein (and Bioweapons technology with Iran.) I guess that's the price to pay for having grown in Cuba: the evil movements of that particular tyrant do not shock me at all. |
| Posted by: Sorge 2004-1-23 10:20:13 PM |
| #4 hows about destroying the jammeers in cuba in a say 4 hour time period and at the same time 'launch so huge revolution in iran', don't know how but there you go.. |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-1-23 3:28:57 PM |
| #3 Isn't Cuba also hosting the jammers that are blocking TV signals from getting into Iran? Maybe the next target shouldn't be Syria, Iran, or North Korea, but a long-lasting problem a bit closer to home... |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-1-23 3:24:03 PM |
| #2 can't the media find a better way to describe unhelthy alliances then 'Axis'.whats it meant to mean anyway?Something to do with angles isn't it? |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-1-23 3:21:15 PM |
| #1 Seeing how quick the Iraqi defenses folded I'm not sure if the information was all that valuable. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-1-23 3:19:00 PM |