The article includes the following quote: "Moscow also provided Saddam with lists of assassins available for 'hits' in the West." You all seem disinterested in that. I don't have much faith in that paper, since they made (unless I'm mistaken) pre-war reports of Sadam threatening to use chemical weapons on the US/UK troops.

However, you people can read this, apparently take it as true, and, apparently, boringly obvious?