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| Bush phoned Putin before attack |
| 2001-10-07 |
President Bush phoned his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to inform him about the military attack on Afghanistan shortly before the offensive took place, a top Kremlin aide said Sunday. ``Bush informed the president of the beginning of the operations. He did this before the attack began,'' Sergei Prikhodko, Putin's chief foreign policy adviser, told Reuters. Interfax news agency quoted a spokesman for the air force staff as saying that Russian air defense had not received any orders to heighten their alert. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |