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I still have not been able to find anything on his wife, but I found this strange story:

Mr Chekou ought to have known, as they originated from Niger's Rome embassy when he was ambassador. But when I saw him at his home in a suburb of Niger's capital, Niamey, he claimed he knew nothing.
Western intelligence claims an "under-paid African diplomat" sold the forgeries to Italian intelligence for a few thousand dollars. The Italians were said to have passed the information to MI6, who passed it to the US, though Britain denies this, saying it did not see the fake documents until this year.
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Although some of this doesn't square with the story we have already, Martino claimed the documents came from the embassy, so the Chekou link to the Niger Embassy is interesting.

Its eavesdropping work brought to light a hotline between Niger Ambassador Adamou Chekou (today advisor to Niger President Tandja Mamadou) and Iraqi diplomats in Rome, specifically with Wissam al-Zahawiah, Iraqi Ambassador to the Holy See.

Holy See? As in Vatican? Where Vincent Cannistraro is the security advisor? Hmmm...

Too bad I can't find anything on the other two, Chekou and Zahawiah, other than copies of this story.

We have been speculating that this will all turn out to be a cabool within the CIA that wanted to stop the march to war against the Sadaam regime. However, what if that cabool played into the hands of a French agent that was "operating" her ex-husband and it turns out that the French have in essence turned a segment of the CIA?

Just, Damn.

FEBRUARY 1999 early : (AN ALGERIAN BUSINESSMAN CALLED 'BARAKA' ARRANGED A TRIP FOR IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO THE VATICAN WISSAM AL-ZAHAWIE TO VISIT NIGER AT THIS TIME) From the Senate Report:
Several analysts interviewed by Committee staff also pointed out that information in the second intelligence report matched [Several words blacked out] reporting from 1999 which showed that an Algerian businessman, Baraka, was arranging a trip for the Iraqi Ambassador to the Vatican, Wissam al-Zahawi, to visit Niger and other African countries in early February 1999. The former ambassador [Joseph Wilson] was selected for the 1999 trip after his wife [Valerie Plame Wilson] mentioned to her supervisors that her husband was planning a business trip to Niger in the near future and might be willing to use his contacts in the region [a few words blacked out]. Because the former ambassador did not uncover any information about [word blacked out] during this visit to Niger, CPD did not distribute an intelligence report on the visit. I have not been able to find anything on Baraka...although to Islam it means "a supernatural gift that has been defined variously as blessing or mystical power". So...it may have not been his real name. Dang. ------------- Posted by ravingnutter to piasa
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As a note of trivia, there is a "Baraka building" mentioned in al Fadl's testimony in the Africa embassies bombing trials- perhaps it was in Sudan.