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Translation from Italian of the article entitled “Cosi Chirac voleva incastrare Berlusconi”, originally published in LIBERO on Sunday 9 august 2004 How Chirac tried to frame Berlusconi Sunday, 09 August 2004 The proof of an attempt by the french services to discredit Italy and the Usa over Iraq by RENATO FARINA The english secretely photographed him. The journalists of the Sunday Times then published his photo on the front page on the 1st of August. With his identity blown he’s now practically dead. This wasn’t the agreement, write the article yes but show the face on the front page no....

THE Sunday Times has tracked down a mysterious middleman who was a key figure in the notorious Niger uranium hoax before the Iraq war, writes Nicholas Rufford. Speaking to a reporter in a cafe in Brussels last week, he claimed he had been an unwitting dupe in the scam, which embarrassed both Tony Blair and George W Bush over Saddam Hussein’s phantom weapons of mass destruction. The middleman, an Italian who uses the name Giacomo, is a small-time tipster said to have worked for Italy’s armed forces and intelligence services. He says Sismi, the Italian foreign intelligence service, used him...

French Probe Led to 'Fake Niger Uranium Papers' By Mark Huband Financial Times August 2, 2004 A French intelligence operation to safeguard Niger's uranium industry and prevent weapons proliferation, inadvertently led to the forging of documents relating to an apparent clandestine uranium trade with Iraq, western intelligence officials say. The operation, begun in 1999, reflected concern among several intelligence services that rogue states may have been trying to procure uranium. France was also concerned about the security of its own uranium supplies from Niger, as well as the security of the two French companies that control Niger's uranium industry. Rocco...