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ロシアは表では戦争反対を唱えて、裏ではブッシュを怪しげな情報でけしかけていた。
どちらがロシアの本音だったのであろうか。
イラクで泥沼にはまったアメリカ、スキャンダルで信望をなくしたアメリカ、ロシアの得点は大きい。
「フセイン政権が対米テロ準備」 ロシア大統領明かす
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ロシアのプーチン大統領は１８日、中央アジア・カザフスタンのアスタナで記者会見し、０３年のイラク戦争の開戦前に、旧フセイン政権による「対米テロ計画」に関する情報をロシアの情報機関が入手し、米国に伝達していたことを明らかにした。イタル・タス通信などが伝えた。
プーチン大統領は「ロシアの情報機関は、フセイン政権が米本土と国外の施設を標的にしたテロを準備していることをつかんだ。こうした情報を（０１年の）米同時多発テロからイラク開戦までに数回、米政府に提供した」と語った。またブッシュ大統領が、ロシア情報を「重要視した」とも指摘。「ブッシュ氏はロシア情報機関の幹部に個人的に礼を述べた」とも明らかにした。
その一方で、プーチン大統領は「フセイン政権が（実際に実行された）テロに関与したという証拠は無い」という点も強調した。 (06/18 22:19)
Putin Says Russia Gave Bush Information on Terrorism
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 18, 2004
Filed at 11:34 a.m. ET
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) -- Russia gave the Bush administration intelligence after the September 11 attacks that suggested Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq was preparing attacks in the United States, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
Putin said he couldn't comment on how critical the Russians' information was in the U.S. decision to invade Iraq.
In Washington, a U.S. official said Putin's information did not add to what the United States already knew about Saddam's intentions.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information, said the Russian tip did not specify a time or a place where an attack might take place.
The Bush administration in part justified the invasion of Iraq by saying Saddam had links to terror groups, including al-Qaida. The U.S. commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said this week there was no evidence of any collaboration between Iraq and Osama bin Laden's terror network.
Putin said Russia didn't have any information that Saddam's regime was actually behind any terrorist acts.
``After Sept. 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, the Russian special services, the intelligence service, received information that officials from Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist attacks in the United States and outside it against the U.S. military and other interests,'' Putin said.
``It's one thing to have information that Saddam's regime is preparing terrorist attacks, (but) we didn't have information that it was involved in any known terrorist attacks,'' Putin said in the Kazakh capital Astana after regional economic and security summits.
He said President Bush personally thanked one of the leaders of Russia's intelligence agencies for the information.
At the White House, National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack would not directly address Putin's remarks. ``We have excellent cooperation with Russia in the war against terrorism and a big part of that is the sharing of intelligence information,'' McCormack said. ``We don't typically comment on intelligence matters.''
Putin said the intelligence didn't cause Russia to waver from its firm opposition to the war.
``Despite that information about terrorist attacks being prepared by Saddam's regime, Russia's position on Iraq remains unchanged,'' Putin said.
Putin didn't elaborate on any details of the terror plots or mention whether they were tied to the al-Qaida terror network.
The Sept. 11 commission reported this week that while there were contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq, they did not appear to have produced ``a collaborative relationship.''
Bush, however, insisted Thursday that Saddam had ``numerous contacts'' with al-Qaida and said Iraqi agents had met with the terror network's leader, Osama bin Laden, in Sudan.
Saddam ``was a threat because he had terrorist connections -- not only al-Qaida connections, but other connections to terrorist organizations,'' Bush said.
Also Thursday, a top Russian diplomat called for international inspectors to conclusively resolve the question of whether Iraq had any weapons of mass destruction -- one of the main reasons Bush used to justify the war. No such weapons have been found since Saddam's fall.
``This problem must be resolved ... because to a great extent it became the pretext for the start of the war against Iraq,'' Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov said in Moscow, according to Interfax news agency.
He said such a finding would allow the U.N. Security Council to ``turn a page and finally close the dossier on Iraqi weapons.''
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AP correspondent George Gedda in Washington contributed to this story.
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