I remember seeing a tiny little three of four sentence story buried in the back of the Rocky Mountain News about a week after the Iraq invasion started. It was a report that the Russians said they had people in Irag helping move weapons out of Iraq to other countries right up to the day of the invasion. I was able to find the original release from a Russian news service. The Russian news service report seemed strange because it reported that they were moving weapons out of Iraq to countries that I though weren't that friendly to Irag. This story kinda backs that up.