Posted on 11/16/2005 11:22:36 AM PST by parnasokan
See #18 on this thread for Volker's conflicts of interest.
Prepared at the direction of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Iraq on the Record is a searchable collection of 237 specific misleading statements made by Bush Administration officials about the threat posed by Iraq. It contains statements that were misleading based on what was known to the Administration at the time the statements were made.I'm assuming this is going to be a full scale civil war?
Speaking of the usual suspects...here's a ping to round up the research crew and other interested parties, LOL! Check this one out y'all!
From Your link:(thanks)
"Today Wilson claims to be a business agent for “African mining companies.” But Niger’s mines are owned by a French consortium, which operates cheek-by-jowl with the Quai d’Orsay. Niger itself is a semi-colony of France. No uranium sales go on there without the full knowledge and consent of the French government. Valerie Plame was quoted in a CIA memo as saying that “my husband has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts)...” Lots of French contacts, indeed."
Here is what I 'smell': FRANCE was selling Niger uranium to Iraq and Joe Wilson was part of it..knew about it..(probably profitted from it) and was sent there to bait and switch the intelligence community with the help of his wife. I have always believed this was more than a partisan political deal on Wilson's part. He looks like a run of the mill sleazy opportunist! After all, France was up to thier neck in the Oil For Food Fraud..why not the uranium we found all over Iraq as well?
No wonder Rockefeller was worried about war in Iraq and warned Syria and company.
I see it that way too.
Bump for later.
I believe it was a Mark Huband article in the Financial Times some time back that charged that Libya's uranium had been smuggled off-the-books from Niger. That seems to have dropped down the memory hole.
Thanks.
Sounds familar. France has been arming the enemies of the United States for years. If you locate a link to that article, let us know.
U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution Condemning Killing of Hamas Leader Yassin, 03/25/04
snip:
On Wednesday, the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva voted 31-2 to condemn Israel for Yassin's death, but the body has no power to punish countries. A resolution by the Security Council would have carried more international weight. The 11 Security Council members who voted for the measure on Thursday were: China, Russia, France, The Philippines, Angola, Chile, Pakistan, Spain, Algeria, Benin and Brazil. Britain, Germany and Romania abstained from the vote.--end snip
Link no longer found: www.adn.com/24hour/story/1245613p-8299749c.html, entitled: Russia boasts weapon to overcome U.S. Star Wars
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MOSCOW (March 29, 5:17 am AST) - Russia has designed a "revolutionary" weapon that would make the prospective U.S. missile defense useless, Russian news agencies reported Monday, quoting a senior Defense Ministry official. The official, who was not identified by name, said tests conducted during last month's military maneuvers would dramatically change the philosophy behind development of Russia's nuclear forces, the Interfax and ITAR-Tass news agencies reported. If deployed, the new weapon would take the value of any U.S. missile shield to "zero," the news agencies quoted the official as saying.
The official said the new weapon would be inexpensive, providing an "asymmetric answer" to U.S. missile defenses, which are proving extremely costly to develop. Russia, meanwhile, also has continued research in prospective missile defenses and has an edge in some areas compared to other nations, the official said. EU slaps France in the face over lifting Chinese arms ban (China), 04/28/04
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He [ed: French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier] said the EU was treating China like Zimbabwe, Sudan or Myanmar while cooperating with it on satellite technology.
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Claudia Rossett: Oil-for-Terror: U.N. Iraq money may have ended up in accounts tied to al Qaeda and the Taliban, 04/28/04
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It's looking more and more as if one of the best reasons to get rid of Saddam Hussein was that it was probably the only way to get rid of Oil-for-Food. The problem wasn't simply that this huge United Nations relief program for Iraq became a gala of graft, theft, fraud, palace-building and global influence-peddling--though all that was quite bad enough. The picture now emerging is that under U.N. management the Oil-for-Food program, which ran from 1996-2003, served as a cover not only for Saddam's regime to cheat the Iraqi people, but to set up a vast and intricate global network of illicit finance. In Oil-for-Food, "Every contract tells a story," says John Fawcett, a financial investigator with the New York law firm of Kreindler & Kreindler LLP, which has sued the financial sponsors of Sept. 11 on behalf of the victims and their families. In an interview, Mr. Fawcett and his colleague, Christine Negroni, run down the lists of Oil-for-Food authorized oil buyers and relief suppliers, pointing out likely terrorist connections. One authorized oil buyer, they note, was a remnant of the defunct global criminal bank, BCCI. Another was close to the Taliban while Osama bin Laden was on the rise in Afghanistan; a third was linked to a bank in the Bahamas involved in al Qaeda's financial network; a fourth had a close connection to one of Saddam's would-be nuclear-bomb makers.
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Link no longer working at Insight.mag, article entitled: "Walker's World: Bush Blair to Talk China"
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The Americans also want to talk about China, and the moves by the European Union to lift the embargo on arms sales to Beijing that was imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre nearly 15 years ago.
The push to lift the EU embargo is being led by French President Jacques Chirac, who sees a glittering opportunity, not just for French arms sales, but for a warm new relationship with Beijing that can lead to even more lucrative deals.
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Enuf for now.
FINALLY!!!!
Now, where do Bill & Hill, or Hill & Bill fit in??!!
Mark Rich.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1161297/posts
Quoting:
The FT has now learnt that three European intelligence services were aware of possible illicit trade in uranium from Niger between 1999 and 2001. Human intelligence gathered in Italy and Africa more than three years before the Iraq war had shown Niger officials referring to possible illicit uranium deals with at least five countries, including Iraq.
This intelligence provided clues about plans by Libya and Iran to develop their undeclared nuclear programmes. Niger officials were also discussing sales to North Korea and China of uranium ore or the "yellow cake" refined from it: the raw materials that can be progressively enriched to make nuclear bombs.
The raw intelligence on the negotiations included indications that Libya was investing in Niger's uranium industry to prop it up at a time when demand had fallen, and that sales to Iraq were just a part of the clandestine export plan. These secret exports would allow countries with undeclared nuclear programmes to build up uranium stockpiles.
One nuclear counter-proliferation expert told the FT: "If I am going to make a bomb, I am not going to use the uranium that I have declared. I am going to use what I acquire clandestinely, if I am going to keep the programme hidden."
This may have been the method being used by Libya before it agreed last December to abandon its secret nuclear programme. According to the IAEA, there are 2,600 tonnes of refined uranium ore - "yellow cake" - in Libya. However, less than 1,500 tonnes of it is accounted for in Niger records, even though Niger was Libya's main supplier.
bingo...
wow..FROM YOUR LINK:
"However, European intelligence officers have now revealed that three years before the fake documents became public, human and electronic intelligence sources from a number of countries picked up repeated discussion of an illicit trade in uranium from Niger. One of the customers discussed by the traders was Iraq.
These intelligence officials now say the forged documents appear to have been part of a "scam", and the actual intelligence showing discussion of uranium supply has been ignored."
LIKE I SAID..IT WAS A BAIT AND SWITCH DONE BY JOE WILSON! Get everyone looking at the 'forged' documents, while folks like Sandy Berger stuff the REAL ones down their pants...lol
with friends like these who needs enemies?
Saddam Tried to Buy Uranium, 06/28/04
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Illicit sales of uranium from Niger were being negotiated with five states including Iraq at least three years before the US-led invasion, senior European intelligence officials have told the Financial Times.
Intelligence officers learned between 1999 and 2001 that uranium smugglers planned to sell illicitly mined Nigerien uranium ore, or refined ore called yellow cake, to Iran, Libya, China, North Korea and Iraq.
Of course, there's also Christopher Hitchens: Rove Rage: The poverty of our current scandal, 07/18/05
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The third bogus element in Wilson's boastful story is the claim that Niger's "yellowcake" uranium was never a subject of any interest to Saddam Hussein's agents. The British intelligence report on this, which does not lack criticism of the Blair government, finds the Niger connection to be among the most credible of the assertions made about Saddam's double-dealing. If you care to consult the Financial Times of June 28, 2004, and see the front-page report by its national security correspondent Mark Huband, you will be able to review the evidence that Niger—with whose ministers Mr. Wilson had such "good relations"—was trying to deal in yellowcake with North Korea and Libya as well as Iraq and Iran. This evidence is by no means refuted or contradicted by a forged or faked Italian document saying the same thing. It was a useful axiom of the late I.F. Stone that few people are so foolish as to counterfeit a bankrupt currency.
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Thanks for the links. Going in the Freeper Keeper file.
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