Posted on 07/18/2003 10:04:09 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:05:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The FBI is investigating the origin of forged documents indicating that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger, and one candidate for the forgeries is an Iraqi opposition group, U.S. officials said.
The documents, obtained first by Italy's intelligence service, ended up fooling the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies into believing Baghdad was trying to buy uranium ore from the African nation, U.S. officials say.
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| Thank you very much! |
| Thank you very much! |
| That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me. |
| It isn't every day |
| good fortune comes me way! |
| I never thought the future would be fun for me! |
| And if I had a bugle |
| I would blow it to add a sort |
| o' how's your father's touch. |
| But since I left me bugle at home |
| I simply have to say |
| Thank you very, very, very much! |
| Thank you very, very, very much! |
Think that is proof enough for liberal socialists?
What did Niger have that could only be acquired in Niger?
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How many of us haven't spent the last couple of weeks wishing President Bush would hit the mikes and shut his critics up, even if he did have to lay low some spook beauracrat. Slap my wrist, the man just doesn't do that, even to save his own hide.
But at last, at long last, the truth is coming out, and the democrats are going to have hell to pay for their over-zealous, personal attack on this president.
~snip~
A U.S. official said the Italians initially only described the documents to the CIA. Then the State Department obtained a set from a journalist and that led to an investigative trip to Niger by former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
What the devil...?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
This may be a reference to an encounter Wilson had in 1999. He did not disclose that in his New York Times op-ed. If he had the above described information from his most recent trip it is stunning. I wish it were more clear.
According to John Loftus they came from France. The French were involved in selling uranium to Iraq through Niger. The French (Chirac's goverment, not French Intelligence ) put this out to poison the well and discredit all the other (5?)Niger/uranium documents that contained solid intelligence they didn't want to get out
The DGSE gave Briton good info and Chirac wanted to discredit it.
(as I remember from WABC, please correct me if I'm wrong)
According to John Loftus they came from France. The French were involved in selling uranium to Iraq through Niger. The French (Chirac's goverment, not French Intelligence ) put this out to poison the well and discredit all the other (5?)Niger/uranium documents that contained solid intelligence they didn't want to get out
The DGSE gave Briton good info and Chirac wanted to discredit it. (as I remember from WABC, please correct me if I'm wrong)
That's very interesting. Perhaps these documents comport with what Joseph Wilson let slip about some in Andrea Mitchell's possession? Someone tell Loftus to call Andrea!
Joseph Wilson, Niger, Uranium and Bush’s Famous Sixteen Words: Evolution of a Confused Story
September 18, 2003“...TPM: And, just to be clear, at this time (--when he traveled to Niger in 2002--), you hadn't seen these documents that turned out to be forgeries?
WILSON: No, I hadn't. I had just been briefed on a memorandum of agreement covering the sale. Now, my understanding is that there are all sorts of other documents that have since come to light and Andrea Mitchell showed me some documents which I had not seen and frankly, I did not have my glasses, so I didn't even get a chance to read them, and I have not seen them since. The uranium participation in this consortium is done through a parastatal, which means that the Niger government owns the corporate identity that is a member of the consortium.”
Greenpeace was in Iraq and they were howling about yellowcake. They wanted the coalition forces to do something about the contamination. I called it up on Google. It is not hard to find. Someone is confused as heck. How could Greenpeace be howling about yellowcake if Iraq never had it? Not to mention they found traces of yellowcake in Jordan on some steel that came in from Iraq.
What is the truth?
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