[shamusotoole]

"But if they were bogus, then you can't get around the apparent fact that the French commissioned them, and the Niger embassy created them. Then it was a French member of the IAEA that publicly exposed them as fakes once they were in US hands."

If memory serves, it was Blix and Kofi in tandem who immediately knew it was an obsolete Nigerian Seal. Blix is a Swede and Kofi ain't French. Was there some one else?

[marron]

Was there some one else?

Yes, but I'll have to dig. El Baradei exposed them, but it was a member of his team that was credited with the exposure. I'll try to find the source but it will take me a while.