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By Bill Gasperini
Moscow
25 March 2006


Saddam Hussein   
  
Russia's foreign intelligence service denies a Pentagon report that Moscow gave Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein intelligence about U.S. troop movements during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

An official with Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, SVR, says the U.S. report consists of unfounded accusations 1 that are, in his words, so wild they are not worth commenting on.

In a statement, SVR Spokesman Boris Labusov indicated that similar accusations have been made before, but said all the reports are fabrications.

The Pentagon report quotes Iraqi documents as saying the Russian ambassador in Baghdad provided Saddam with information about U.S. military plans.

The information was allegedly collected from sources inside U.S. Central Command in Doha, Qatar, and passed on by Ambassador Vladimir Titorenko.

The U.S. military says some of the intelligence was false. The report says that contributed to Iraqi leaders' miscalculations about the U.S.-led invasion. It did not say whether the false information was leaked deliberately 2.

Titorenko later escaped injury, when American troops inadvertently fired on a convoy 3 in which he and other diplomats 4 were traveling to neighboring Syria.

Russia long maintained cordial relations with Saddam Hussein and his government, and had strong business interests in Iraq.

Russian President Vladimir Putin took a highly public position in opposition 5 to the war, along with French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor 6 Gerhard Schroeder.

One intelligence unit of the Russian military was also known to be operating in Iraq at the time of the war.



n.指责( accusation的名词复数 );指控;控告;(被告发、控告的)罪名
  • There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
  • He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地
  • The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
vt.护送,护卫,护航;n.护送;护送队
  • The convoy was snowed up on the main road.护送队被大雪困在干路上了。
  • Warships will accompany the convoy across the Atlantic.战舰将护送该船队过大西洋。
n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 );有手腕的人,善于交际的人
  • These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
  • The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
n.(英)大臣;法官;(德、奥)总理;大学校长
  • They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
  • He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。
学英语单词
abnormal ovum
absentment
achatine snail
Adobe Flash
al qaida
alternative assumptions
alu (arithmetic logic unit)
american press institute
anathematisation
ancient forest
Austrian school
bacterial zoonosis
baryta coating
biauricular line
Big Boffe cotton
Bitter-wood
blowtank
bond deposit method
boom topping
botallackites
Brattvaag
bulk out
carboxydobacteria
career-management
charitovalgus formosanus
cherry leaf spot
Chirita crassituba
competitive equality in banking act (1987)
constant current control
constant value control
coroutine
D-Days
date of shipping
de valois
debt proportion
effacer
embondages
Ephedra distachya
expected utility
explicatio
exponential line
fair-faced concrete
fornaras
gaeseong
gas water heater
gaydar
Hepatozoon perniciosum
highbrow
holstein
hookless tapeworm
horse head motion
hydrotherapeutic
i feel terrible
incompletely-specified function
inner object damage
Instant Karma
knezs
linguistic terrains
liparite with cinnabar
Lisium
marking down prices
marlie
Marojejya
maximizings
Metzgeriaceae
microcameras
microwave distance method
mish-mashes
multiple recording
naphthaquinol
Office for Budget Responsibility
Ol'zony
orthomicrosparite
Ottilien Reef
oxybutynin hydrochloride
pancreatlc reaction
placement program
polarized induction
poo tangs
portrait photographer
production reactor
red bag
retropulsive
salsabil
sar (segmentation and reassembly sublayer)
schedule of reinforcement
smolen
spectral components
stand for cipher
stem cabbage
switchfoots
tellin
tenderness of acupoints
the wheels came off the bus
tobacco jack
trialkylphosphines
tsch
tyubeteika
unrewardable
vertical judder
war on
weydert