I think Berlusconi should "incastrare" Chirac. (No, I don't know what "incastrare" means, but it sounds good right now.)
Rough read without enough paragraph breaks, but very interesting.
Credulous dupes gain international renown. They read like flattered wannabe insiders.
On the 7th of march Baradei declared the documents false. Excellent timing. Its rather interesting that even before Baradei made his decleration some ex-CIA agents, through thier web site Veteran Intelligence Professional for Sanity-Vips, had alreaady made it known that the dossier had been manipulated.
Hmm...maybe possible DGSE agent "Niger Mint Tea" was incautiously honest when he said he "proved" the documents were forgeries before the IAEA did, and his later expression of "confusion" an after-the-fact deflection.
Thanks for posting this. I'm trying to find the original Italian article but the link only takes me to the front page of the current paper, and they don't seem to have an archives search function on that page. Do you have a link to the page with the article?
If I'm reading this right, this is dynamite.
I'm going to send it to Rush (who will be back on the air tomorrow). Maybe he can illuminate us about what it really means.
Interesting story along similar lines in an Australian paper a while ago. Writer's conclusion: The French set the whole thing up to discredit the US and Britain.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/26/1051316050118.html