Iraqi Agent Went To Niger In 1999

July 31, 2003




Terry Jeffrey, the editor of Human Events, reports a great story,
"Saddam Sent Trade Mission to Niger." Jeffrey went through the United
Nations Atomic Energy Agency records and found that they say Saddam
Hussein sent an ambassador named Al Zahawie on a trade mission to
Niger in 1999. As Jeffrey asks, "If Iraq’s emissary to Niger sought
trade, the implication is obvious: Did Saddam want Niger uranium, or
did he want Niger cows or cowpeas?"

The Iraqi nuclear hawk did, indeed, go to Niger in 1999. It's backup
that the British intelligence is right. What's that Iraqi nuclear hawk
doing in Niger? Niger is a uranium-exporting country. It's the primary
thing that Niger is known for.

So now, it has been discovered and even admitted to by Al Zahawie that
he went there in 1999, ostensibly on a trade mission, but this was a
move to arm Arab nations with nuclear capability because of the
imbalance of power, from their point of view, based on the possession
of such weapons by Israel. So this just gets even more frustrating.

There's no question that those 16 words in the president's State of
the Union were correct and there was no reason to apologize for saying
them. Saddam was trying to reconstitute his nuclear program - and he
was snooping around Africa trying to do it.







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