Russia 'Warning' on Saddam Puzzles U.S.
ASTANA (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks that Iraq (news - web sites)'s Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) planned to hit targets on U.S. soil, Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) said Friday.
Putin's remarks looked certain to help President Bush (news - web sites), but officials at the State Department expressed bafflement, saying they knew of no such information from Russia.
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State Department spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters he did not know anything about the information that Putin said Russia passed on. No such information was communicated from Russia through the State Department, he said.
"Everybody's scratching their heads," said one State Department official, who asked not to be named
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