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To: laura_bush who wrote (108564)7/28/2003 7:18:48 PM
From: Elsewhere  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Niger has denied everything about working with Iraq for uranium, have they not?

Yes:

Hama Hamadou, [Niger's] prime minister, broke his silence to call on Mr Blair to produce the evidence he claims to have to prove the link. "Our conscience is clear. We are innocent. We have never sold uranium to Iraq," he said. "We have never discussed uranium with Iraq."

'Why, Mr Blair, would Saddam ever have thought he could get hold of our uranium?'
(Telegraph 27/07/2003)

In the first visit by a British newspaper to Niger's mines, workers tell David Harrison the UK's claims are 'lies'

telegraph.co.uk