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2005-10-25 Europe

Agent behind fake uranium documents worked for France

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Posted by Ebbavith Gromoger7541 2005-10-25 20:14|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Italian diplomats have claimed that, by disseminating bogus documents stating that Iraq was trying to buy low-grade "yellowcake" uranium from Niger, France was trying to "set up" Britain and America in the hope that when the mistake was revealed it would undermine the case for war, which it wanted to prevent.

Wow! The MSM is going to be all over this (not).

Posted by phil_b 2005-10-25 20:52|| 2005-10-25 20:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Wasn't that part of the Wilson/Niger Yellowcake story, way back when? Nice that the Telegraph has caught up with Rantburg!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-25 22:35|| 2005-10-25 22:35|| Front Page Top

#3 This is an antique story, there is even a Wiki about it, but not only that, it is totally irrelevant. The zinger is that Saddam already *had* a large amounts of pre-nuclear weapons material:

http://tinyurl.com/76mr3

(What the report doesn't mention is all the other stuff the US absconded with post-invasion. We made enormous amounts of equipment and materiel disappear.)

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-25 22:44|| 2005-10-25 22:44|| Front Page Top

#4 We made enormous amounts of equipment and materiel disappear

I thought we did that by blowing it up?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-25 22:55|| 2005-10-25 22:55|| Front Page Top

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