Центральная статья в сегодняшней New

Центральная статья в сегодняшней New York Times:

WASHINGTON, March 4 — A group of Russian engineers secretly aided Saddam Hussein’s long-range ballistic missile program, providing technical assistance for prohibited Iraqi weapons projects even in the years just before the war that ousted him from power, American government officials say.

Iraqis who were involved in the missile work told American investigators that the technicians had not been working for the Russian government, but for a private company. But any such work on Iraq’s banned missiles would have violated United Nations sanctions, even as the Security Council sought to enforce them.