Rice says U.S. to raise alleged intelligence issue with Russia

The United States will raise to the Russian rise about reports that Russia provided intelligence to the Saddam Hussein regime after the Iraq war to started in 2003, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday.

"We would take very seriously any suggestion that this may have been done, maybe to the detriment of American forces," Rice said in an interview with the NBC's "Meet the Press" program.

"Definitely we will raise it with the Russian government," Rice said.

In a report on Friday, the Pentagon alleged that in the early period of the Iraq war in 2003, Russia provided Saddam Hussein with information on U.S. military movements. However, Russia's foreign intelligence service has denied the Pentagon report.

Source: Xinhua