1999 : (NIGER———THIS IS THE YEAR IN WHICH [ACCORDING TO 2004 BOOK BY FRMR US AMBASSADOR TO GABON JOE WILSON] IRAQI OFFICIAL MOHAMMED SAEED SAHHAF aka BAGHDAD BOB aka “COMICAL ALI” * APPROACHES A NIGERIEN OFFICIAL IN 1999 TO DISCUSS ‘EXPANDING TRADE’ [See YELLOWCAKE URANIUM])— “New look at Bush’s `16 words’,” by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Columnist, Boston Globe, July 11, 2004
JANUARY 2004 : (FRMR US AMBASSADOR TO GABON JOSEPH WILSON TALKS TO HIS NIGER SOURCE AGAIN; LEARNS THAT THE IDENTITY OF THE IRAQI OFFICIAL WHO APPROACHED A NIGERIEN OFFICIAL IN 1999 TO DISCUSS TRADE WAS FOREIGN MINISTER MOHAMMED SAEED SAHHAF aka ‘BAGHDAD BOB’ aka ‘COMICAL ALI’ [FORMER IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL, AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN, BURMA & THE UN BEFORE BECOMING IRAQI INFO MINISTER]) — - “Book Names Iraqi in Alleged ‘99 Bid to Buy Uranium,” by Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writer , Washington Post, Friday, April 30, 2004, Page A16 , http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54640-2004Apr29.html
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