That damned Bush screwed everything up:
A former Russian top spy says his agents helped the Russian government steal nearly $500 million from the U.N.’s oil-for-food program in Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Sergei Tretyakov, who defected to the United States in 2000 as a double agent, says he oversaw an operation that helped Saddam’s regime manipulate the price of Iraqi oil sold under the programâ€â€and allow Russia to skim profits.
Tretyakov, former deputy head of intelligence at Russia’s U.N. mission from 1995 to 2000, names some names, but sticks mainly to code names. Among the spies he says he recruited for Russia were a Canadian nuclear weapons expert who became a U.N. nuclear verification expert in Vienna, a senior Russian official in the oil-for-food program and a former Soviet bloc ambassador. He describes a Russian businessman who got hold of a nuclear bomb, and kept it stored in a shed at his dacha outside Moscow.
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Aww shucks. All this time I thought the Russians opposed the Iraq War on grounds of democratic principle.
Now I discover it’s because of the money. It’s all so hard to believe.
Stored it at his dacha?
There goes the property values. “Lovely garden, Ivan, too bad the damn herbacious broder ate my dog!”
On a side note – is it just me or is common sense seriously lacking everywhere?
It’s just you.
Mikey, you remember that bird flu pandemic everybody was talking about a couple of years back?
Turns out the pandemic wasn’t bird flu. It was stupidity.
Nice website