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  • Italy denies role in fake documents on Iraq

    10/26/2005 12:27:21 PM PDT · by blogblogginaway · 20 replies · 968+ views
    ABC News ^ | oct. 26, 2005 | Phil Stewart
    ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government denied on Wednesday reports that its secret services passed fake documents to the United States to help bolster claims about Baghdad's pre-war nuclear ambitions. Italian newspaper La Repubblica has been running daily articles since Monday alleging that Sismi intelligence officials helped pass-off forged documents that accused Iraq of trying to buy 500 tons of "yellowcake" uranium from Niger. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's office said in a statement the government and Sismi had no "direct or indirect role in the fabrication and the transmission of the 'fake dossier on Niger uranium."' La Repubblica accuses Sismi,...
  • TNT Residue Found On Luggage Of Somali Religious Leader Arrested At Portland Airport

    09/09/2002 5:12:29 PM PDT · by Shermy · 57 replies · 1,274+ views
    KATU-TV ^ | September 9, 2002
    PORTLAND - Tests indicated explosives residue on the luggage of a local Islamic religious leader arrested at the Portland International Airport on charges of document fraud, a federal prosecutor said Monday at the man's arraignment. Sheik Mohamed Abdirahman Kariye, 41, was arrested at the airport without incident around noon Sunday and booked at the Multnomah County Jail. Kariye on Monday pleaded innocent to two felony charges of using false information - including a changed name - while applying for and receiving three different Social Security cards between 1983 and 1995. The federal indictment also alleges that Kariye used an altered...