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To: longnshort who wrote (241384)	7/13/2005 2:47:00 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571566

"The British intell. say the yellow cake story is true and wilson is a liar." Link?

To: longnshort who wrote (241384)	7/13/2005 2:50:22 PM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1571566

The British intell. say the yellow cake story is true and wilson is a liar. The british intel says nothing like that. In fact Wilson reported the following: Tenet's statement noted that Wilson had reported back to the CIA that a former Niger official told him that "in June 1999 a businessman approached him and insisted that the former official meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss 'expanding commercial relations' between Iraq and Niger. The former official interpreted the overture as an attempt to discuss uranium sales." In his book, Wilson recounts his encounter with the unnamed Niger official in 2002, saying, he "hesitated and looked up to the sky as if plumbing the depths of his memory, then offered that perhaps the Iraqi might have wanted to talk about uranium." Wilson did not get the Iraqi's name in 2002, but he writes that he talked to his source again four months ago, and that the former official said he saw Sahhaf on television before the start of the war and recognized him as the person he talked to in 1999. Sahhaf was Baghdad Bob...the goofy iraqi spokesman who was so dangerous we arrested him and let him go at the beginning of the war. The documents referred to as the basis for bush's quote in the SOTU address were shown to be forgeries by Baradei's staff. It took the grand total of a couple of Google searches to learn that the signatures on these documents were from officials not in office at the date shown on the docs. In any event, although the CIA rejected the Niger file, it was taken up by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney who was urgently seeking reasons to invade Iraq. Cheney passed the now-discredited data to Bush, who used it in his January, 2003 address to the nation. Six months later, CIA director George Tenet admitted that the claim should never have been included in the State of the Union address. A 2002 investigation by former U.S. Ambassador to Niger, Joseph Wilson, also concluded the documents were forgeries, but he was ignored by the White House. Wilson is now being smeared by Republicans. Amazingly, Bush, Cheney, the neo-conservatives, and the media, all of whom kept beating the war drums over the alleged Iraqi nuclear threat, never seemed to have understood that yellowcake uranium ore is no more lethal than plain dirt. To make nuclear weapons, the ore must be laboriously enriched by gaseous separation or centrifuge. Both processes require enormous plants and huge amounts of electric power -- easily observable by satellite. Iraq had no nuclear industrial infrastructure to enrich uranium, as everyone knew. What would it do with raw ore? Iraq had no means to deliver nuclear warheads. The only way Iraq could get a nuclear warhead to the U.S. was by FedEx. Who was behind the Italian Job? Who knows? Likely right-wing elements within Italy's government who are ideological soulmates of Bush. In any event, this appears to be SISMI's contribution to the cascade of lies that led to war. In Great Britain, which also pushed the discredited Niger/uranium story, claiming it had independent confirmation from another source, MI6 provided other disinformation. Britain's respected Scotsman newspaper has just cited a report by investigative journalist Tom Mangold that Tony Blair's intelligence chief, John Scarlett, sent a secret message to British arms inspectors in Iraq, pressuring them to confirm 10 charges made by the British government -- which have now been disproved -- about Saddam's nefarious weapons of mass destruction. These claims were the centerpiece of a key government report on the Iraqi threat justifying war. All, as it turned out, were bogus. Instead of being sacked, Scarlett was recently promoted to head MI6 by Blair. Completing the farce, we now learn an astounding 15,000 tons of highly enriched uranium the U.S. sent around the world since the '50s for various research projects remain unaccounted for. It takes 10 kilos to build a basic nuclear weapon. canoe.ca Al