Former Niger PM said Iraq did not try to buy uranium...

[lottie244]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3891503.stm

Anybody hear about this? I haven't seen it reported in the US media.

[bagnana]

1. they did not try to buy uranium

they were not trying to buy uranium
they never bought uranium.
this is such a stupid stupid stupid argument. Bush and Blair are now arguing that they know Iraq didn't buy, couldn't buy, didn't try to buy, but maybe the evidence that they might have, makes their repeating this lie less eggregious.

[wtmusic]

4. Absolutely--we've analyzed the "17 words" more than enough

Nigerian uranium or no, the war was a go. Whoever doesn't believe that has their head up their ass.

[NMDemDist2]

2. of course we didn't hear it here, you think we have a real press corp

here or what??

on another note, Welcome to DU :hi:

[creeksneakers2]

3. There was a delegate. I don't know about a delegation

Its widely spread old news. The diplomat who went is still trying to clear his name. The reason he went to Niger was to try and get help breaking Iraq's trade embargo.

This was already investigated. In January of 2003 Iraq presented the delegate to weapons inspectors in Iraq. The diplomat was out of Iraq and easy to find for years before that.

The trip was even in the papers at the time he went, 1999. Nobody thought anything of it until 2001 when Italian intelligence reasoned that since Niger had no other exports, the trip must have been to buy uranium. That claim was soon dismissed by U.S. intelligence but is probably at the core of the British case.


Here are a couple of links:

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,491666.html