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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: geode00 who wrote (177703)12/11/2005 3:14:32 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
French Told CIA of Bogus Intelligence
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The foreign spy service warned the U.S. various times before the war that there was no proof Iraq sought uranium from Niger, ex-officials say.

latimes.com

PARIS — More than a year before President Bush declared in his 2003 State of the Union speech that Iraq had tried to buy nuclear weapons material in Africa, the French spy service began repeatedly warning the CIA in secret communications that there was no evidence to support the allegation.

The previously undisclosed exchanges between the U.S. and the French, described in interviews last week by the retired chief of the French counterintelligence service and a former CIA official, came on separate occasions in 2001 and 2002.

<MORE> and more evidence that Bush lied.
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