Italy denies role in fake documents on Iraq

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1252742

Italy denies role in fake documents on Iraq

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, which is highly respected in Italy, of giving the false documents to the United States.

[reality based]

1. I wonder if this will endanger Burlesconi's government?

[jazzjunkysue]

2. This only means that the B** crime family made them release this

statement, or, that the Sismi agent acted without the government's approval.

But it doesn't mean it didn't happen.