[Sacajaweau]

What caught my eye:

"In late February 2002, I arrived in Niger"....where "I had been a diplomat in the mid 70's".

So he had all these connections but hadn't been there in 30 years? How old is Joe?

[Wuli]

You can be sure Wilson had been in Africa many times from the 1970s to 2002, just read:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1256475/posts
What Joe Wilson Doesn't Say About Africa