Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (104377)	7/9/2003 3:17:41 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I am sorry that I missed this earlier. In fact, if there were corroborating material from elsewhere, I do not find the testimony of Mr. Wilson definitive. The idea that uranium could not have been smuggled out without attracting attention strikes me as ludicrous, and that is the whole basis of his report, that he couldn't find anyone willing to confess involvement, or to acknowledge that something might have happened without proper monitoring. By itself, if I were in an intelligence service, it would not cause me to change my assessment........

To: maceng2 who wrote (104377)	7/9/2003 3:53:51 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Because of how the uranium business in Niger operates, the consortium that runs the mines would have learned of Niger's efforts to mine more uranium than normal and that increase would have been noticed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). There was no such trail and Mr Wilson concluded the documents must have been fake. That addresses the question of whether Nigerian agents were trying to supply Iraq with uraninium, but not the question of whether Iraqi agents were trying to obtain uranium. As we all know, Nigerian businessmen are impeccably honest to a man and would never lead anyone up the garden path -g-