(Washington Times) Bill Gertz - The French government secretly supplied fleeing Iraqi officials with passports in Syria that allowed them to escape to Europe, U.S. intelligence officials said. The French support, which was revealed through sensitive intelligence-gathering means, angered Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence officials in Washington because it undermined the search for senior aides to Saddam. A Bush administration official said, "It's like Raoul Wallenberg in reverse. Now you have the French helping the bad guys escape from us."
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