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Niamey: see no evil The Senate Select Commission on Intelligence noted that in 1999 Joseph A Wilson had also been sent to Niger by the CIA and there has been much speculation about the purpose of that trip. Now we know. His keen powers of observation were put in out nation’s service to check out reports that A. Q Khan was traveling to Africa to purchase yellow cake uranium, something of which he seems to have found no evidence. From opinionjournal.com

Tehran, Feb 28 (IranMania) -- According to Iran's State News Agency (IRNA) first meeting of Iran-Niger Economic Commission will open in Niger`s capital of Niamey and will continue up to March 3. A report released by the public relations department of the Ministry of Cooperatives said that the meeting will focus on expansion of trade cooperation, holding trade fairs, exchange of trainees to undergo professional industrial and technical training, education of manpower and joint agricultural projects. It added that development of Niger's health and treatment network as well as the activity of Niger's Red Crescent Society and other projects and...

A London accountant has described how Pakistan's disgraced nuclear hero Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan visited the West African state of Mali on three occasions between 1998 and 2000. Abdul Ma'bood Siddiqui accompanied A.Q. Khan on three mystery trips  between 1998 and 2000. Their final destination was Timbuktu, a remote outpost in the desert that has always been a magnet for explorers and adventurers from around the world. The mystery behind the visits has deepened following recent revelations that Khan is also the owner of a small hotel in the town that he has named after Hendrina, his Dutch-born wife and...

FEATURES No flies on Bush Mark Steyn says the President’s anti-terrorist strategy is working, and that he is all but certain to be re-elected New Hampshire How do you feel about uranium from Niger? I was on a radio show the other day and some anti-war campaigner ...hang on, I should explain for visitors from Planet Zongo that, since the war in Iraq ended, the anti-war movement has massively expanded its operations. In advanced Western democracies, just because the war has stopped is no reason for the ‘Stop the War’ movement to stop. In Washington the other day, the Iranian...