ASTANA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that Iraq's Saddam Hussein ( ) planned to hit targets on U.S. soil, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
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Putin's remarks looked certain to help President Bush (news - web sites), but officials at the State Department expressed surprise, saying they knew of no such information from Russia.

Putin said Russian intelligence had been told on several occasions that Saddam's special forces were preparing to attack U.S. targets inside and outside the United States.