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Intelligence backs claim Iraq tried to buy uranium
Financial Times ^ | 27 June 2004 | Mark Huband

Posted on 06/27/2004 6:05:35 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16

Illicit sales of uranium from Niger were being negotiated with five states including Iraq at least three years before the US-led invasion, senior European intelligence officials have told the Financial Times.

Intelligence officers learned between 1999 and 2001 that uranium smugglers planned to sell illicitly mined Nigerien uranium ore, or refined ore called yellow cake, to Iran, Libya, China, North Korea and Iraq.

These claims support the assertion made in the British government dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme in September 2002 that Iraq had sought to buy uranium from an African country, confirmed later as Niger. George W. Bush, US president, referred to the issue in his State of the Union address in January 2003.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; cialeak; ciatreason; iraq; joewilson; niger; plame; plamegate; prewarintelligence; treason; uranium; wilson; yellowcake
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1 posted on 06/27/2004 6:05:36 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
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To: NavySEAL F-16

can't be true. Richard Clark asked around and was told it didn't happen.


2 posted on 06/27/2004 6:06:59 PM PDT by stylin19a (parking on the curb is not off-roading)
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To: NavySEAL F-16

Good find. Thanks.


3 posted on 06/27/2004 6:07:28 PM PDT by GOPJ
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To: NavySEAL F-16

"Illicit sales of uranium from Niger were being negotiated with five states including Iraq at least three years before the US-led invasion,"
Bump


4 posted on 06/27/2004 6:07:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (unabashedly patriotic)
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To: NavySEAL F-16
So I guess Joe Wilson was really just as incompetent as the rest of the crew at CIA?

When is Pres. Bush going to go through the Bureau and CIA with fire and sword the way he needs to?

5 posted on 06/27/2004 6:08:07 PM PDT by pierrem15
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To: pierrem15

its not incompetents - its a shadow government operating with their own agenda inside these agencies.


6 posted on 06/27/2004 6:09:35 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: NavySEAL F-16

Senator Daschle was deeply saddened.


7 posted on 06/27/2004 6:10:06 PM PDT by Thom Pain (Quisling - from Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), a synonym for "traitor")
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To: NavySEAL F-16

HEY JOE WILSON - CLEAN UP ON AISLE 2!!

And while you're at it, tell your wife the jig is up!


8 posted on 06/27/2004 6:10:54 PM PDT by Humidston (Bush/Rice - 2004 - You heard it here.)
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To: pierrem15
When is Pres. Bush going to go through the Bureau and CIA with fire and sword the way he needs to?

It begins Wednesday, Nov 3, 2004.

9 posted on 06/27/2004 6:12:00 PM PDT by evad (What's BAD for democRATs is GOOD for America)
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To: NavySEAL F-16

I guess we can expect The New York Times to run this on the front page? Right? Yeah, right.


10 posted on 06/27/2004 6:12:34 PM PDT by RW1974
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To: NavySEAL F-16; Jim Robinson; Admin Moderator

If this is not in Breaking News, It Should Be!!!!

Thanks for posting this NEWS, NavySEAL F-16!!!!

D2


11 posted on 06/27/2004 6:15:17 PM PDT by Defender2 (Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
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To: NavySEAL F-16

The link is a little messed up.


12 posted on 06/27/2004 6:16:01 PM PDT by The Bandit
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Didn't Wilson admit that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger in 98 or 99 in his book anyway?


13 posted on 06/27/2004 6:16:03 PM PDT by swilhelm73
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To: NavySEAL F-16
Interesting that all this info is coming out now--confirmation of strong Iraq/AQ ties; Russians admitting that Hussein was plotting attacks against the US; evidence of Iraq involvement in 9-11 starting to show up; WMD popping up all over Iraq; now this.

Precursor to the October Surprise, Bush's biggest rope-a-dope ever?

14 posted on 06/27/2004 6:16:06 PM PDT by randog (Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
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Joseph Wilson, Niger, Uranium and Bush’s Famous Sixteen Words: Evolution of a Confused Story

September 18, 2003
Wilson gives an interview to the TalkingPointsMemo.com

“...TPM: And, just to be clear, at this time (--when he traveled to Niger in 2002--), you hadn't seen these documents that turned out to be forgeries?
WILSON: No, I hadn't. I had just been briefed on a memorandum of agreement covering the sale. Now, my understanding is that there are all sorts of other documents that have since come to light and Andrea Mitchell showed me some documents which I had not seen and frankly, I did not have my glasses, so I didn't even get a chance to read them, and I have not seen them since. The uranium participation in this consortium is done through a parastatal, which means that the Niger government owns the corporate identity that is a member of the consortium.”

How come Andrea Mitchell knew before us?

15 posted on 06/27/2004 6:16:19 PM PDT by Shermy
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Wilson is a clymer, nothing more, nothing less.


16 posted on 06/27/2004 6:17:24 PM PDT by b4its2late (John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
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To: stylin19a
Richard Clark asked around and was told it didn't happen.

I thought it was Joe(who's gonna play me in the movie) Wilson?

17 posted on 06/27/2004 6:17:45 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Part of the Reagan legacy is to re-elect G.W. Bush))
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To: randog

this Niger stories would go over the head of most americans.

we need two rabbits to be pulled from the hat - Osama, or a WMD stockpile in an underground bunker someplace.


18 posted on 06/27/2004 6:19:11 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Mister Baredog

oh duh me. yeah ...joe wilson


19 posted on 06/27/2004 6:19:25 PM PDT by stylin19a (parking on the curb is not off-roading)
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To: The Bandit
No kidding! I got this:

HTTP Status 500 - 199<br><br>java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 199<br> at org.apache.catalina.util.RequestUtil.parseParameters(RequestUtil.java:539)<br> at .....etc, etc.

20 posted on 06/27/2004 6:19:43 PM PDT by Humidston (Bush/Rice - 2004 - You heard it here.)
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