On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:10:52 +0000, NOYB wrote:


"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.

Read the above. It says Iraq *acquired* uranium from Niger. There is no
evidence of this. The documents that sent Wilson to Niger have been
proven and accepted to be forgeries. What the British claim is
that they have additional information that Iraq *sought* to buy uranium
from Niger. That information is most likely from French intelligence.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/...International/

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030...4149-3172r.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisw...999291,00.html

And again, to put the pieces together:

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact