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‘Forgers’ of Niger Uranium Contract NamedPosted on Apr 9, 2006Remember the uranium ore that Hussein supposedly purchased from Niger? A contract documenting the sale was used as evidence of the need to invade Iraq and was included in a 2002 U.S. State Department fact sheet on Iraq’s weapons program. Remember how the IAEA denounced the documents as fakes shortly before the invasion of Iraq? Well, according to the Times Online, the forgers have finally been named.
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By Snorri Sturluson, April 10, 2006 at 10:23 am Link to this comment
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Not sure I believe this. It’s my understanding that the forgery was pretty sloppy. Among other things, if I remember correctly, the individual listed as Foreign Minister of Niger was not in office at the date listed on the document, and some of the other government officials’ names were misspelled. I would think employees of a Niger embassy would have gotten these things right.
Report thisBy Theway2k, April 9, 2006 at 7:29 pm Link to this comment
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One thing is absent from the story. What was the motive for forging the documents?
Report thisBy cassiopeia, April 9, 2006 at 3:17 pm Link to this comment
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So I guess this begs the question. Where they acting on their own or did someone ask them to do the fakes. And, if they were acting on their own because they perceived there was a market for the fakes, how come they passed muster with so many intelligence guys who, one hopes, know what they are doing?
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