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Special Iraqi Command Staff in Moscow and Minsk Organize Airlift of
Advanced Air Defense Systems to Baghdad

Russia and Iraqi are working intensely in the last few days to accelerate substantial deliveries to Baghdad of SA-6 anti-air missiles and advanced radar, according to DEBKAfile ’s military sources. So as not to draw Washington’s ire, the Russians are redirecting supplies via military bases in Belarusand on to civilian airliners flying out of Minsk to Baghdad. The Belarus president, Alexander Lushenko, a tough USSR-style dictator, is radically anti-American and close to Russian president Vladimir Putin. Under their military pact, Russia maintains part of its nuclear weapons stocks in Belarus. To speed up supplies, Saddam Hussein in the last fortnight posted a large military delegation led by Brigadier Saadi Subhi at the Iraqi embassy in Moscow and another, headed by Col. Aedil Hadida, a military engineer specializing in air defenses, in Minsk. Our military sources add that a large group of Russian intelligence officers dressed as civilians has arrived in Baghdad to train Iraqi intelligence officers. They are agents of the SVR, successor to the KGB’s counterintelligence arm, the First Chief Directorate. These largely concealed movements are symptoms of rising US-Iraqi tensions since the American air raid over Baghdad on Feb. 16.


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