[Cindy]

Thank you Piasa.

[piasa]

From -- "Senate report offers backing for claim Iraq sought uranium in Africa," By Matt Kelley, Associated Press, 7/9/2004, via The Boston Globe, http://www.boston.com/dailynews/191/wash/Senate_report_offers_backing_f:.shtml

The CIA also made only ''halfhearted'' attempts to investigate a West African businessman's claim that Nigerien uranium bound for Iraq was being stored in a warehouse in the nearby African nation of Benin, the report said. The CIA never contacted the businessman, even though the U.S. Navy gave the CIA his phone number, the report said.