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Merlin Dorfman (dorfman@rahul.net) wrote:

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: : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2278019.stm

:      Pre-Gulf-War-I (1986-88).  We knew Saddam was working on 
: atomic energy then.  (Remember the Israelis taking out the Osirak
: reactor?)  The question is about since then.
:      And I'm automatically suspicious of anthing that contains a
: howler like this: "However, the uranium produced in Africa is not
: of weapons grade and would need processing before it could be used
: in weapons."  Tell me, where can I dig weapons-grade urainium
: right out of the ground??

: : http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/12/sprj.irq.uk.uranium.straw/index.html

:      Other procurement activities, but nothing related to yellow
: cake...and IIRC that was primarily the aluminum cylinders that
: turned out not to be for centrifuges.

: : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/14/wdoss114.xml

:      A French source!  LOL!

: : http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36632

:      An unconfirmed report from December that some unstated
: amount of yellow cake was found...no info on source or age,
: could certainly have been left over from the 80s.
:      However, here are some reports of the White House's
: admission of error in making the charge:
: Asia Times:
: <http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EG11Ak02.html>
: And if you don't like that source, how about Fox News...
: everybody knows how anti-Bush they are:
: <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,91619,00.html>
: Or, finally, how about the White House itself:
: <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030711-7.html>
: (about a third of the way down)
: <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030712-11.html>
: (You have to go a little more than halfway down where the Press
: Secretary admits the letter was a forgery but claims Saddam was
: a threat anyway.  But perhaps he can explain why "The more
: uranium you have, the fewer centrifuges you need to produce a
: nuclear weapon.")

     And here is another relevant article from today's San Jose
Mercury News.  Registration is required but is free:
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/editorial/8572254.htm>:
Joseph Wilson's description of how he showed the entire story of
Saddam trying to buy uranium in Africa was incorrect, not just the
letter; and how this information was provided to the Administration
months before the State of the Union; and how, after the State of the
Union, when Wilson mentioned that information, somebody (probably in
Cheney's office) retaliated by "outing" his wife as a CIA agent...
which is a felony.