Comments: Uranium from Africa and the Niger Forgeries: When did the CIA first receive copies of the Niger uranium forgeries? - Part 3: The Non-Burba Forgeries
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Posted by scout at March 8, 2006 10:29 AM

Fear of gods is the ultimate weakness, scout. Mental illness, however, is a close second. Please, please get some help. Schizophrenia is so treatable these days.

Posted by iamcoyote at March 8, 2006 01:30 PM

eR,

Hold up there. My position is that the IAEA received some of the Niger docs from the US but also recieved some (inc. the Zahawie/uranium/July 6, 2000 document, AKA the Accord) from Italy.

Posted by FMJ at March 8, 2006 03:49 PM

We benefit again from the hard work of eriposte. Thanks eriposte!! You ought to eventually collect all your writings and put them into a book.

Posted by Herman at March 8, 2006 05:06 PM

FMJ,

I don't want to speculate about the Italians having given the IAEA some of the forgeries when the IAEA stated on the record, in a letter, that the documents they analyzed came from the US.

If the Italians actually gave them any forgeries, then the Italians are in trouble because they have denied circulating the forgeries to anyone.

Posted by eriposte at March 9, 2006 07:36 AM

eR,

I think the IAEA letter is being imprecise. The Time Magazine article implies it was Italy.

Italy had handed over cables from al-Zahawie to the Niger government announcing the trip, and other documents had pointed to his presence in Niger. But the inspectors were particularly interested in a July 6, 2000, document bearing al-Zahawie's signature...

I've emailed IAEA to try and clear this up. I'll let you know if I hear anything back.

Posted by FMJ at March 9, 2006 04:09 PM

FMJ,

The extract you have just says that Italy gave them documents relating to his 1999 trip....not that they handed over proof that his trip had to do with uranium. Also, the Time magazine wording is also totally ambiguous because it doesn't say that the July 6, 2000 doc was handed over by the Italians. July 6 2000 clearly had nothing to do with his 1999 trip per se.

Anyway, let me know what you find. I'm open to reassessing my conclusions if new facts emerge that indicate something different.

Posted by eriposte at March 9, 2006 07:27 PM
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