CIA 'questioned UK uranium claim'

[NNN0LHI]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3109993.stm

The CIA called into question UK claims in last September's dossier that Saddam Hussein was buying in uranium from Africa even before the document was published, it has been confirmed.

The Foreign Office in London - which made the admission - also said that, despite US concerns, Britain decided to go ahead and publish the claims because they believed their intelligence to reliable.

A decision was therefore taken not to include the doubts expressed by America.

The news comes in the latest report by the Commons foreign affairs committee which has been investigating the way the government's case for war with Iraq was presented.

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[T_i_B]

1. Interesting story

Well, just as long is it isn't another Gilligan job if you know what I mean.

I do have a question though, why then did the Niger uranium story end up in the SOTU in january if the claim was being queried in September?

[fertilizeonarbusto]

2. Because if you repeat a lie enough

people will take it for the truth.

[OldCurmudgeon]

3. what I find simply AMAZING

is that it took the IAEA two hours with Google to find out that the Niger uranium documents were a blatent, grotesque forgery!

Two Hours!

with

Google

for crying out loud!

I think it took them longer to write the press release that described their findings....

Yet the UK and the CIA had those documents for months.

Okay, perhaps the CIA and MI-5 are a pack of simpering morons that couldn't find their own butts given the use of both hands and a flashlight.

More likely, they didn't check those documents because they didn't want to find out if they were true or not. Their Lords and Masters would be displeased.

There needs to be a major investigation. Heads Must Roll.

[mike6640]

4. I'm going to ask this question here

even though it probably deserves its own thread.

How is it that this Uranium from some "African" country is/was so much of a concern, yet little is being reported that Iraq already had tons of the stuff? (UN knew it was there, and had it in a secure site)

I can recall our own (US) troops going in, breaking the IAEA seals on a containment facility in Iraq, then saying "AHA!!! We found WMD!!!". Then it was revised to "Oops, our bad". The troops then left this site unguarded. The place was looted, radiocative barrels dumped and used as drinking water containers of all things.

Stupidity that boggles the mind.

[displacedtexan]

5. you're too smart for your own good!

expect a knock at your door.
asskkkroft is probably lurking.

[The Stranger]

6. Media Watch: Congratulations, Karl Rove!

A couple terra warnings and some good suspcion (can't release the report) about Saudi Arabia in the 911 report sure got Bush's lies about uranium out of the news.

[NNN0LHI]

7. Don't matter whether it is the news 24/7 or not. The damage has been done

People are showing their douts. The good old boy BS that Bush trys to pull with his "who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes(?)" stuff is not holding up any more due to closer scrutiny.

Don

[T_i_B]

8. We need more damage dammit

Let's get those doubts on the news 24/7! Let's get the lying bastards!

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