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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (158463)	7/10/2003 10:40:29 PM
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<<CBS: White House Ignored CIA Over Iraq Uranium Claim>> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House ignored a request by the CIA (news - web sites) to remove a statement in President Bush (news - web sites)'s State of the Union address that Iraq (news - web sites) was seeking uranium from Africa for its nuclear weapons program, CBS Evening News reported on Thursday. The White House acknowledged this week that it had been a mistake to put the claim about Iraq seeking uranium from Africa in Bush's speech and the documents alleging a transaction between Iraq and Niger had been forged. Critics have seized on the statement as an example that the Bush administration tried to mislead the public by hyping the threat posed by Iraq to gain support for the war. The CIA checked the parts Bush's speech dealing with Iraq's weapons of mass destruction for accuracy and CIA officials warned White House National Security Council staff that the intelligence was not strong enough to flatly state that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa, CBS News said. White House officials argued that since a paper issued by the British government contained the assertion, if it was attributed to Britain it would be factually accurate, CBS said. CIA officials dropped their objections, CBS said. Bush later delivered the following line in his State of the Union speech: "The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." The Italian intelligence service circulated reports about the Niger documents -- not the documents themselves -- to other Western intelligence services in early 2002, and that was apparently how the British and U.S. intelligence services learned of them, U.S. government sources have said. A CIA spokesman declined comment on the CBS report, which was sourced to senior Bush administration officials. A White House spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment. Since invading U.S. forces ousted Saddam from power in April, no biological or chemical weapons have been found nor evidence that Iraq and restarted its nuclear weapons program. story.news.yahoo.com