Posted on 10/25/2005 2:04:14 PM PDT by Renfield
Russo Martino, the man behind the forged documents indicating Saddam had purchased uranium from Niger, which Joseph A. Wilson falsely claimed he had seen and warned the Administration about, has come forward and admitted that he did this in the pay of France to undermine the British and American justification for the war in Iraq:
The man, identified by an Italian news agency as Rocco Martino, was the subject of a Telegraph article earlier this month in which he was referred to by his intelligence codename, Giacomo.
His admission to investigating magistrates in Rome on Friday apparently confirms suggestions that by commissioning Giacomo to procure and circulate documents France was responsible for some of the information later used by Britain and the United States to promote the case for war with Iraq.
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.
Italian judicial officials confirmed yesterday that Mr Martino had previously been sought for questioning by Rome. Investigating magistrates in the city have opened an inquiry into claims he made previously in the international press that Italys secret services had been behind the dissemination of false documents, to bolster the US case for war.
According to Ansa, the Italian news agency, which said privately that it had obtained its information from judicial and other sources, Mr Martino was questioned by an investigating magistrate, Franco Ionta, for two hours. Ansa said Mr Martino told the magistrate that Italys military intelligence, Sismi, had no role in the procuring or dissemination of the Niger documents.
Were the twins a cover?
Wilson left Bahgdad in 1998, isn't that the same year he dumped French Jacqueline for CIA agent Valerie Plame.
And why did they all live at the same address in 1999. What do we really know about these people? Was Valerie a double agent spying on Joe and Jacqueline?
Tune in for our next episode......
"Shermy and cyncooper.....could this admission be tied into Judy Miller being showed those three documents by Patrick Fitzgerald in front of the GJ."
The article is a year old.
And how much was Joe Wilson paid to provide the trigger?
How did he pay for that $750,000 house he and his wife bought just before going public again?
I'll be damned you are correct.....then why is this dude writing about something was written about LAST October?
This would be 'Big News' if it weren't for the fact that the MSM already has Rove & Libby convicted, Cheyney resigned & Bush about half-way to impeachment...
Interesting... The American Thinker article is dated today, and its tone is that it is reporting something new, but the telegraph article is dated as you have noted... Guess that everything old is new again, huh...
Things are becoming clear. Libya and Iraq were obtaining yellowcake from Niger, with France's knowledge. Someone in France decides to kill the Niger story by creating documents that will be found on examination to be forgeries. These will discredit the Niger story.
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Ping.
Note the links in the thread.
Interesting reading.
Niger document forger in pay of France
Russo Martino, the man behind the forged documents indicating Saddam had purchased uranium from Niger, which Joseph A. Wilson falsely claimed he had seen and warned the Administration about, has come forward and admitted that he did this in the pay of France to undermine the British and American justification for the war in Iraq.
as I said, Batchelor had this story nailed for 2 years now. once in a while a thread with this pops up here, but there is no traction to this story.
So when do we commence bombing on Paris? Does anyone know?
These surrender monkeys are sick, sick puppies.
Hey, I wonder if the French were informing Joe Wilson about this and that is why he could lie and say he saw the documents. He knew what was in them because the French had tipped him off. Just a thought.
Raving: I see by the post you linked to that you have been receiving some veiled threats. Curious that someone would threaten a private citizen who's merely theorizing on what's going on. And it ain't going to do them any good.
That is the author's original wording. Clarice Feldman has been supplying useful and insightful commentary on this unfolding story for quite some time, and is unlikely to be pulling any legs...
Don't know which would be more perfidious, working for the Saudis, the French, or Kerry.
If you're working for Kerry, you're working for the French.
Then she needs to take a remedial grammar course.
No! No! No! This story can't be true. Yesterday, Jerry Springer said it was a "fact" that Rove and Libby forged those documents!
Also, re: "disseminating bogus documents", I had nothing to do with those documents!
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