ASTANA, Kazakhstan ?? 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 (search) 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 Qaeda (search). The U.S. commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said this week there was no evidence of any collaboration between Iraq and Usama bin Laden's terror network.
FOXNews.com - Putin: We Told U.S. Saddam Was Planning Attacks - U.S. & World

Nizar Nayuf (Nayyouf-Nayyuf), a Syrian journalist who recently defected from Syria to Western Europe and is known for bravely challenging the Syrian regime, said in a letter Monday, January 5, to Dutch newspaper ??De Telegraaf,? that he knows the three sites where Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) are kept.
IRAQ'S WEAPONS IN SYRIA: SENIOR SYRIAN JOURNALIST

Saddam's Secrets corroborates what Ariel Sharon said on Dec. 23, 2002, in a television appearance on Israel's Channel 2: "Chemical and biological weapons which Saddam is endeavoring to conceal have been moved from Iraq to Syria."

But Sada gave more detail to that claim. He said Hussein's Special Republican Guard brigades loaded WMDs onto two converted Iraqi Airways planes that made 56 flights to Syria. He also said they were accompanied by a ground convoy of trucks carrying similar materials.

The flights and convoy escaped international attention because they reportedly occurred at the same time that Iraq was sending relief to Syria for a dam collapse.
Ex-Iraqi general, noted U.S. Christian writer tell story of WMDs and serving Hussein - 1/30/06

CNN) -- The CIA has in its hands the critical parts of a key piece of Iraqi nuclear technology -- parts needed to develop a bomb program -- that were dug up in a back yard in Baghdad, CNN has learned.

The parts, with accompanying plans, were unearthed by Iraqi scientist Mahdi Obeidi who said he had hidden them under a rose bush in his garden 12 years ago under orders from Qusay Hussein and Saddam Hussein's then son-in-law, Hussein Kamel.

CNN Security Correspondent David Ensor reports that under United Nations sanctions in place in 1991, the concealment of such materials -- and failure to disclose their presence -- would have constituted violations of Security Council regulations.

But U.S. officials emphasized that this was not evidence Iraq had a nuclear weapon -- but it was evidence the Iraqis concealed plans to reconstitute their nuclear program as soon as the world was no longer looking.
CNN.com - Nuke program parts unearthed in Baghdad back yard - Jun. 27, 2003

Impeachment based on what???

Have a good one!:s4: