-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Iraqis step up secret Russian weapons trade By Jessica Berry Relations with Iraq - Foreign and Commonwealth Office [FCO] Britain, UNSCOM and Iraq - FCO US Defence Intelligence Agency Iraq - US State Department Campaign Against Sanctions in Iraq Iraqi National Congress The Iraqi opposition: who are they? - ABC News This is what $70 billion can build Powell heads east to face Arab wrath SADDAM HUSSEIN has ordered a big expansion of Iraq's Russian and Belarus embassies and appointed one of his senior military men to head a new intelligence unit in Moscow, the Telegraph can reveal. The appointment has been kept secret as the role involves efforts to negotiate arms deals with Russia. Brig Saadi Mohammed Subhi will head a new 20-strong military intelligence bureau attached to the embassy in Moscow. Western intelligence officials have expressed concern over the posting, pointing out that Brig Subhi's background is air defence. He is also a member of the powerful Ba'ath party and a former intelligence officer. One Western official said: "This is a significant departure from the norm. Usually, they appoint lower-ranking military intelligence officials. The fact that he comes from air defence is proof that negotiations with Moscow are at an advanced stage." Last year, the Telegraph reported that Moscow had signed deals worth more than £100 million with Iraq to reinforce its air defences in breach of the United Nations arms embargo. Russia, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, led international criticism of this month's US and British air raid on Baghdad military installations The man appointed to head an expanded Iraqi intelligence mission in Belarus is Col Aedil Kamil Hadidi, a military engineer. President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus is a close ally of Moscow, and Col Hadidi's posting is a further sign of Saddam's strengthening ties with Russia Iraqi opposition groups said radar and missile equipment was being smuggled into Iraq from Russia via Iran. Jordan had been abandoned as a conduit as Western border surveillance had increased. Moscow is also said to be stepping up training of Iraqis in the use of equipment and in intelligence. A Western intelligence officer said: "There is very strong evidence that former KGB officers are training Iraqi military intelligence officials." Russia's assistance is badly needed following the toppling of Saddam's former ally, the former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic, whose regime is credited along with Russia, China and Belarus of helping to improve Iraq's air defence systems. Shortly before the raids, the US Defence Intelligence Agency said a new underground fibre-optic link supplied by the Chinese had led to improved Iraqi capabilities. Serbs who worked on Iraqi installations under the Milosevic regime gave vital intelligence on underground defence installations before the British and US raids on Baghdad. While the recent air raid on Baghdad may have destroyed a key radar centre, it has not affected the Iraqi leader's buying power. Baghdad makes about £7 million a day from oil smuggling, some of which is believed to fund front companies in China, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand. These are used to buy equipment from Europe which cannot be traced. A member of an Iraqi opposition group said: "He is currently buying more wagons from Austria and France for the train used to smuggle oil out to Syria. China is used as the conduit country." As revealed in the Telegraph in January, the sanctions-busting train is crucial to the oil-smuggling operation. 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