Niger document forger in pay of France

The American Thinker ^ | 10-25-05 | Clarice Feldman

[colorcountry]

Were the twins a cover?

Wilson left Bahgdad in 1998, isn't that the same year he dumped French Jacqueline for CIA agent Valerie Plame.

And why did they all live at the same address in 1999. What do we really know about these people? Was Valerie a double agent spying on Joe and Jacqueline?

Tune in for our next episode......

[Shermy]

"Shermy and cyncooper.....could this admission be tied into Judy Miller being showed those three documents by Patrick Fitzgerald in front of the GJ."

The article is a year old.

[FreedomCalls]

Italian diplomats have claimed that, by disseminating bogus documents stating that Iraq was trying to buy low-grade “yellowcake” uranium from Niger, France was trying to “set up” Britain and America in the hope that when the mistake was revealed it would undermine the case for war, which it wanted to prevent.

And how much was Joe Wilson paid to provide the trigger?

How did he pay for that $750,000 house he and his wife bought just before going public again?

[Dog]

I'll be damned you are correct.....then why is this dude writing about something was written about LAST October?

[Tallguy]

This would be 'Big News' if it weren't for the fact that the MSM already has Rove & Libby convicted, Cheyney resigned & Bush about half-way to impeachment...

[saleman]

"Alternatively, the MSM will play up only 1/2 the story, and claim that the case for the war was based on "documents we now know to be forged".

BINGO!!! At DU they have a thread up on the homepage. The blog claims that according to, you guessed it, "unnamed sources", All intelligence was based on the forged documents and Bush knew it!

[Zeppo]

Interesting... The American Thinker article is dated today, and its tone is that it is reporting something new, but the telegraph article is dated as you have noted... Guess that everything old is new again, huh...

[popdonnelly]

Things are becoming clear. Libya and Iraq were obtaining yellowcake from Niger, with France's knowledge. Someone in France decides to kill the Niger story by creating documents that will be found on examination to be forgeries. These will discredit the Niger story.

[BARLF]

Bump

[piasa]

The tale spun by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson that Iraq did not ever try to buy uranium yellowcake from Niger is now in the process of unraveling. And, of course, the phalanx of anti-war journalists is desperately trying to stop the bust-up.
But it can't be done. The flying apart began with two stories in the Financial Times (London), one on June 28, the other on July 4. Relying on information ultimately sourced to three European intelligence services--none of them British and one of them that had monitored clandestine uranium smuggling to Iraq over three years--Mark Huband reported that the network also serviced or was to service Libya, Iran, China, and North Korea. A tell-tale element of the story is that the mines in Niger from which several thousand tons of uranium had been extracted and sold were owned by French companies.
Apparently, after a time, they had abandoned the mines as economically unviable. But, as a counter-proliferation expert told Huband, this does not mean that extraction stopped. In any case, Lord Butler's altogether independent panel in the United Kingdom concluded that Tony Blair's claim about Hussein being in the market for uranium was "well-founded." These are the same claims made by George W.
-------- "Turning Tale (New Republic savages Wilson, Berger, and France)," by Martin Peretz, The New Republic, July 22, 2004

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.

Note the links in the thread.

Interesting reading.

[FreedomCalls]

This is another thread going right now:

Niger document forger in pay of France

Russo Martino, the man behind the forged documents indicating Saddam had purchased uranium from Niger, which Joseph A. Wilson falsely claimed he had seen and warned the Administration about, has come forward and admitted that he did this in the pay of France to undermine the British and American justification for the war in Iraq.

[Texasbound]

There's something very strange about this headline. Noone with even a rudimentary grasp of English grammar would write a phrase like "in the pay of France". I'm afraid someone may be pulling our leg here. The French for "lands" is pays. To be in the pays de france is simply to be in the country of France.

[oceanview]

as I said, Batchelor had this story nailed for 2 years now. once in a while a thread with this pops up here, but there is no traction to this story.

[daviscupper]

So when do we commence bombing on Paris? Does anyone know?

These surrender monkeys are sick, sick puppies.

Hey, I wonder if the French were informing Joe Wilson about this and that is why he could lie and say he saw the documents. He knew what was in them because the French had tipped him off. Just a thought.

[popdonnelly]

Raving: I see by the post you linked to that you have been receiving some veiled threats. Curious that someone would threaten a private citizen who's merely theorizing on what's going on. And it ain't going to do them any good.

[Zeppo]

That is the author's original wording. Clarice Feldman has been supplying useful and insightful commentary on this unfolding story for quite some time, and is unlikely to be pulling any legs...

[popdonnelly]

Don't know which would be more perfidious, working for the Saudis, the French, or Kerry.

If you're working for Kerry, you're working for the French.

[Texasbound]

Then she needs to take a remedial grammar course.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

No! No! No! This story can't be true. Yesterday, Jerry Springer said it was a "fact" that Rove and Libby forged those documents!
Also, re: "disseminating bogus documents", I had nothing to do with those documents!