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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (434154)	7/27/2003 12:27:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) of 769667

<font color=blue> Interesting comments from Niger. Blair is in real trouble.......his administration is being investigated for the suicide of David Kelly and no one believes he has credible sources on the Niger uranium purchase and now this. His ratings are below 30% and dropping like a rock! How these guys can operate on such a high level of dishonesty amazes me!<font color=black> ***************************************************** Report: Niger Denies UK Claim on Iraq Uranium Deal Sat Jul 26, 4:29 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - The prime minister of Niger has denied claims hisnation was involved in trying to sell uranium to Iraq and challenged his British counterpart Tony Blair to prove otherwise, a Sunday newspaper reported. "Our conscience is clear. We are innocent," Hama Hamadou told the Sunday Telegraph in an interview in Niamey, capital of the West African nation. "If Britain has evidence to support its claim then it has only to produce it for everybody to see," he added. Britain has claimed intelligence shows Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger to make atomic weapons, but -- embarrassingly for Blair -- Washington has publicly disavowed that. The White House apologized for a reference to the claim in a speech by President Bush, saying the charge was based on forged documents. But London insists it has evidence from a third country which the Americans have not seen. The issue has become prominent in the debate over whether Blair misled the British public and parliament over the case for war against ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Hamadou was scathing in his remarks to the Sunday Telegraph. <font color=red>"Is this how Britain and America treat their allies?" he asked, noting that Niger sent 500 troops to fight against Saddam in the 1991 Gulf War. "We were the first African country to send soldiers to fight against Saddam after the invasion of Kuwait in 1991 ... Would we really send material to somebody whom we had fought against and who could destroy half the world with a nuclear bomb? It is unthinkable." <font color=black> The Niger prime minister said he had received no formal message from London or Washington about suspected uranium deals with Iraq, and attributed the prominence of the row to battles for public opinion in Britain and the United States. "We cannot get involved in the politics of the world's most powerful nations ...Our uranium is tightly controlled and our priorities are to produce enough food to feed our people and provide education for all of our children," he said. "Everybody knows that the claims are untrue."

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