"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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This is juicy...those damned questioning liberals, eh?

Forging the Case for War
Who was behind the Niger uranium documents?
by Philip Giraldi

From the beginning, there has been little doubt in the intelligence
community that the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame was part of a
bigger story. That she was exposed in an attempt to discredit her husband,
former ambassador Joseph Wilson, is clear, but the drive to demonize
Wilson cannot reasonably be attributed only to revenge. Rather, her
identification likely grew out of an attempt to cover up the forging of
documents alleging that Iraq attempted to buy yellowcake uranium from
Niger.

What took place and why will not be known with any certainty until the
details of the Fitzgerald investigation are revealed. (As we go to press,
Fitzgerald has made no public statement.) But recent revelations in the
Italian press, most notably in the pages of La Repubblica, along with
information already on the public record, suggest a plausible scenario for
the evolution of Plamegate.

Information developed by Italian investigators indicates that the
documents were produced in Italy with the connivance of the Italian
intelligence service. It also reveals that the introduction of the
documents into the American intelligence stream was facilitated by
Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith’s Office of Special Plans (OSP), a
parallel intelligence center set up in the Pentagon to develop alternative
sources of information in support of war against Iraq.


See: http://www.belgraviadispatch.com/archives/001447.html

While the above is probably true as there were several actors that wanted
Saddam toppled, Saddam was interested in acquiring Yellow cake, read the
article. There were talks before 9/11 with Nigerian officials about
acquiring UNTRACEABLE uranium.