Re: Surprise, FRANCE supplied Nigerian Uranium info

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From: Jim
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:18

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Jim wrote:
> Blast Door wrote:
> 
>> Financial Times
>>
>> Two foreign governments, thought to be France and Italy, supplied 
>> Britain with the intelligence for its claim that
>> Saddam Hussein's Iraq had sought uranium from Africa.
>>
>> The Financial Times has learnt from senior Whitehall sources
>> that the information came from two west European countries,
>> and not from now discredited documents that proved to be forgeries.
>>
>> from:
>> http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1057562362080 
>>
> 
> 
> This is hardly earth shattering news. The article makes no statement at 
> all on the validity of the intelligence. Just that it came from a source 
> other than US intelligence and that the Brits didn't share it with the 
> US. It's the last part that's interesting. Tony and George always were 
> strange bedfellows.

There's a followup story today that suggests the French may have been 
doing nothing more than parroting the same bogus intelligence that 
started with the forged documents from Niger. It's a comic circle:

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-14-075208.asp?reg=MIDEAST

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