"thunder" wrote in message
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On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 20:29:07 +0000, NOYB wrote:


The second item contains a report of how Iraqi intelligence,
helped
by
"a small team from the al-Qaeda organisation", arranged for an
(unspecified) shipment from Niger to reach Baghdad by way of Libya and
Syria.

Iraqi officials believe this is a reference to the controversial
shipments of uranium ore Iraq acquired from Niger to aid Saddam in his
efforts to develop an atom bomb, although there is no explicit reference
in the document to this.

I think, at least this part, is BS. IMO uranium from Niger has been
totally debunked.

Actually, the uranium from Niger report hasn't been totally debunked.
British intelligence stands by its original story. If you remember, it was
CIA employee Valerie Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, who made the claim that
he could find no evidence of the uranium transfer...and his bias is
evidenced by his maxed out campaign contributions to the Democratic Party
and John Kerry's campaign...and by the anti-war piece he wrote for Nation
magazine in February.