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From: zonder	7/8/2003 5:02:44 AM
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Liar liar, pants on fire... US admits Iraq-African uranium link 'bogus' By James Harding and Guy Dinmore in Washington and James Blitz in London Published: July 7 2003 20:55 \| Last Updated: July 8 2003 7:37 news.ft.com The two chief advocates of war in Iraq - George W. Bush and Tony Blair - came under concerted pressure on Monday over their use of intelligence to justify military action against Saddam Hussein. The White House was forced to admit that an assertion by President Bush this year that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium from Africa was based on "bogus" information. Responding to accusations that the White House twisted information to exaggerate the Iraqi threat, Ari Fleischer, the president's press secretary, insisted Mr Bush did not know the reports were wrong when he made the allegation - one of the central elements of his case against Iraq - in the State of the Union address in January. In London, Tony Blair's government faced its first formal criticism for the way it made the case for war on Iraq. A parliamentary committee said parts of a dossier on Mr Hussein's weapons of mass destruction had been "more assertive" than would normally have been the case and warned of "disquiet" for the government until WMD are found. Mr Bush has not faced the same level of outcry over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as Mr Blair. But the White House is being dogged by a growing number of questions about the president's eagerness to suggest Iraq was developing a nuclear capability by citing evidence of efforts to buy uranium and aluminium tubes to serve as centrifuges. The gathering concern over possible manipulation of intelligence comes amid rising levels of national anxiety about the prospects of a long, bloody deployment of US soldiers in Iraq. US military personnel have been dying at the rate of roughly one a day since Mr Bush declared the end of combat operations. The Bush administration confirmed on Monday that Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador, investigated the attempted purchase of uranium in Niger for the Central Intelligence Agency. Nearly a year before Mr Bush's State of the Union address, he delivered his findings to the administration that there was no truth to the allegations. Mr Wilson wrote in the New York Times on Sunday that "some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons programme was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat". Mr Fleischer insisted that Mr Bush, and vice-president Dick Cheney, were not aware that the Niger report had been found to be inaccurate when the president made his case at the State of the Union on January 28. Mr Fleischer promised to publish a more detailed expla- nation of Mr Bush's comment. The White House has previously acknowledged the Niger account was later discovered to be false, but Mr Fleischer's admission yesterday was the clearest to date that Mr Bush based a statement in the State of the Union on misleading information. The other element of Mr Bush's State of the Union allegation that Iraq had "much to hide" is also under scrutiny. xref Iraq's interim

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