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NRO: It's been suggested by Isikoff and others that some of the evidence turns up nowadays is forged, that you can't take it on its face value. To what extent is the evidence you present corroborated by other evidence, other documented meetings, etc?--from National Review Online[Stephen] Hayes: I think they're right on that point — and it's almost never a good idea to take these things at face value. There was a report that surfaced in December 2003 that suggested that Mohammed Atta had been in Baghdad during the summer of 2001. And, a little too conveniently, the very same document claimed that the U.S. was seeking uranium from Niger. There's little question that the three-page report was forged. (An interesting side note: That document came not from Ahmed Chalabi, but from CIA favorite Iyad Allawi, the new Iraqi interim prime minister. Allawi has long argued that there was a significant relationship between Saddam's Mukhabarat and al Qaeda.)
Thanks for the reminder!
What was the buzz on this last year?
Sounds juuuuussst a little too pat. They should have included a "PS - We moved all our WMDs out of the country before the invasion. Check Syria."
Don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily think that makes the memo genuine. But, if the memo's really fake, that was a pretty lousy way to convince people. In fact it was nothing if not a surefire way to make people smell "coverup", even if there was none.
And there's been absolute silence since, hasn't there?
Might be interesting to see if the new interim Iraqi leader is ever asked about this at a press conference, eh? :-)
But all we really know is Chalabi told a top Iranian spy the US broke a tippy-top secret Iranian code. We really know this because the top Iranian spy secretly communicated to Tehran in the tippy-top secret code that the same tippy-top secret code had been broken.
Or so I read...
No Kidding ???!!!! Who would have thunk
don't expect the 3 stooges to pick up on this.
I predicted all this. The summer of tying up loose ends. Saddam's trial is right off the horizon. It's going to play out just as I suspected. WTC1, OKC, WTC2 and Saddam sez "I had some Feyadeen I could not control.....they did this".
GWB is just too bouncy in his step not to be holding major cards.
Well, hello. The truth is starting to seep out.
(Even if this is an older article)
Boy they sure spiked that story when it came out.... time to resurface it I say!
ah crap it is old news. well anyway I stand by my prediction.
It's time for him to stand up and shout it again now that more might pay attention to him.
Saddam himself could publicly spill the entire story and the media in the US would still do everything it could to portray the situation as otherwise.
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this paper is most likely a fabrication, furthermore Nidal was possibly killed by Saddam's people. The reason for this is not clear.
Do not put too much in the fact that Allawi thought this document was genuine, many had this opinion a year ago.
bump for more research...