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BY JAMES TARANTO Friday, April 30, 2004 4:11 p.m. EDT Joe Says It Was So Remember Joe Wilson, the loudmouthed former ambassador who stirred up a kerfuffle last year by claiming that BUSH LIED!!!! when he purportedly said Saddam Hussein's Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Niger? Now Wilson has a book out, and it seems he's changing his story. The Washington Post reports: 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...

<p>BAGHDAD, April 3 -- At 8 p.m., as a weary capital settled in for another night of explosions, electricity was cut to many of the 5 million residents, enveloping Baghdad in darkness for the first time since the concussions of U.S. bombing began two weeks ago.</p> <p>The cause of the blackout was not clear. U.S. military officials in Qatar said American planes and missiles had not targeted Baghdad's electrical grid. Neither Iraqi radio nor Iraqi television mentioned the outage, continuing almost blanket programming of patriotic music, nationalist speeches and odes to President Saddam Hussein.</p>