Agent behind fake uranium documents worked for France

[Pluvious]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/19/wniger19.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/19/ixworld.html

"Italian diplomats have claimed that, by disseminating bogus documents stating that Iraq was trying to buy low-grade "yellowcake" uranium from Niger, France was trying to "set up" Britain and America in the hope that when the mistake was revealed it would undermine the case for war, which it wanted to prevent."

LMAO

Little did they know the WH was looking for even the slimmest "evidence" to use in their bullshit "case for war" - those "yellowcake" documents were so poorly done, 10 minutes on google you could confirm they were fake - god what a fucking joke.

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[aquart]

1. Are you sure the timing works on that?

Sounds off, to me.

[Newsjock]

2. Consider the source

The Telegraph -- take it with a grain of salt. Another planted report that they've put in the foreign press specifically so it can ooze into the Republican Noise Machine.

[grasswire]

3. I don't believe it.

Unless Joe Wilson says so, I don't believe this.

It's a way to deflect blame from Perle and the shapeshifters, IMO.

Disinformation.

[countmyvote4real]

4. Me thinks it doth French too much.

I hate the "new" Republicans. They are Nazis. OMG, that leaves China as the only super power left to save the world this time.

[funnymanpants]

5. Probably bogus

The *Telegraph,* a right-wing publication, is notorious for misinformation. On several different occasions after the Iraq war it published documents to discredit anti-war members, only to have these documents turn out to be completely bogus.

This story sounds silly. France wanted to avoid the war, so why would it produce anything that would help the US administration--could they really have known the documents would backfire?

My guess is that the Italian guilty of the crimes is trying to cover his own but.

[Mr_Spock]

6. The coneheads did it!

lol :)

[mreh]

7. Sounds like the French have been making more noise about

indicting *cheney* so this bogus story is planted to try to undermine France's credibility (further undermine).

[antigone382]

8. The Italian Government is trying to cover its own a$$

If you want to know how and why we really got those yellowcake documents, here's the place to go:

http://www.juancole.com/2004_08_01_juancole_archive.html

(snip)

The rightwing government of corrupt billionnaire Silvio Berlusconi, including Martino, was a big supporter of an Iraq war. Moreover, we know that the forged documents falsely purporting to show Iraqi uranium purchases from Niger originated with a former SISMI agent. Watch the reporting of Josh Marshall for more on this SISMI/Ledeen/Rhode connection.

But journalist Matthew Yglesias has already tipped us to a key piece of information. The Niger forgeries also try to implicate Iran. Indeed, the idea of a joint Iraq/Iran nuclear plot was so far-fetched that it is what initially made the Intelligence and Research division of the US State Department suspicious of the forgeries, even before the discrepancies of dates and officials in Niger were noticed. Yglesisas quotes from the Senate report on the alleged Iraqi attempt to buy uranium from Niger<.>

(Much more)

http://www.juancole.com/2004_08_01_juancole_archive.html