Book Names Iraqi in Alleged '99 Bid to Buy Uranium By Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 30, 2004; Page A16 It was Saddam Hussein's information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, often referred to in the Western press as "Baghdad Bob," who approached an official of the African nation of Niger in 1999 to discuss trade -- an overture the official saw as a possible effort to buy uranium. That's according to a new book Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who was sent to Niger by the CIA in 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq had been...