Thanks for the link concerning those arrests - now in light of these recent arrests, go look at this old thread also concerning South Africa. This is from when Seymour Hersch's article came out bringing out the Wilson/Niger thing:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/946281/posts?page=66#66
Keep in mind that Wilson is tied to the Kerry campaign...
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks for the ping. The theory you pose on the other thread regarding South Africa sounds plausible to me.
On a related note--brainstorming out loud here--I've wondered if the period of time Wilson spent with the State Department in South Africa from 1981-1982 involved anything touching on South Africa's nuclear program. South Africa seemed to be a departure from his previous and succeessive diplomatic assignments, which were typically to former French or Belgian colonies, several of which were also producers of uranium. In trying to identify what South Africa had in common with these other assignments, one thing that came to mind as a possibility was uranium.
Related question: why send a diplomat whose specialty is in French African affairs to Iraq in the late 80s? Could it be because of some French connection to Iraq's attempts to acquire uranium? We know that Saddam was getting other military equipment from France before the Gulf War. I find myself again wondering about Wilson's meeting with "Saddam's principal arms buyer in Paris" on the eve of the Gulf War. Who was this individual, and did he have a connection to South Africa?