"Scott" wrote in message ...
"joe parkin" wrote in message
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The document purporting to show that Saddam was trying to obtain uranium
from Nigeria came from the US - presumably the CIA. It was full of
elementary blunders - an easily detected forgery.

They (a colleciton of documents, not just one) weren't written
by the CIA. They were written by an employee of the Embassy of
Niger in Italy who sold them to the Itallian government who
turned them ofer to the British Government who turned them
over to the US Government and I have never heard that any-
one in any intelligence agency ever thought there even a
remote chance that they were genuine.

Which kinda makes you wonder why the US government turned them
over to the IAEA. Persons within US intelligence who actually
were familiar wiht them HAD to know the IAEA would realize
they were false. One wonders if there are persons in US
intelligence who wanted the truth to come out.

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