Which is bobbins, because the 1999 trip was with regard to creating international pressure to relax the sanctions regime. As the Duelfer Report noted:

ISG has not found evidence to show that Iraq sought uranium from abroad after 1991 or renewed indigenous production of such material—activities that we believe would have constituted an Iraqi effort to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program…. Regarding specific allegations of uranium pursuits from Niger, Ja’far claims that after 1998 Iraq had only two contacts with Niamey—neither of which involved uranium.

But that’s only one of the many howlers in the crappy Senate report. Next?

IIRC, that’s a different program, involving the enrichment of uranium. The “rods” program is the plutonium route. IIRC NK pursued the uranium program in an attempt to circumvent the letter of the agreement with the US, which referred to plutonium.

…or as the left refers to him, General Best President Since Jesus.

Huh? The left typically doesn’t like Clinton. I know I didn’t.

Though he’s certainly better than Bush…

Seems to me perhaps someone was being setup that didn’t know any better. Or has this all been some kind of twisted Skull and Bones / P-2 Lodge prank ?

Oh no you didn’t. Damn abb1 and here I was thinking you were down with Reason.

N Korea’s nuke program was restarted under Clinton, or as the left refers to him, General Best President Since Jesus. This is also the same period where N. Korea proved the size of their dicks by firing a ballistic missile over Japan.

Obviously those IAEA seals and cameras were magical in their ability to stop the Koreans from developing nuclear weapons (prior to 2001).

One can only wonder whether this is a bug or a feature of Bushies’ policies.

Yes, but the site was guarded by Saddam’s Iraqi soldiers, not by the UN or the IAEA. Perhaps I’m over reaching here, but the Bush administration could have made the case that the stockpile was a threat to national security and not safe under those circumstance. And that Saddam must agree to the physical removal of the stockpile or face the consequences.

Point being, I’m not convinced the forgery business had anything to do with this yellowcake issue. The actions of Valerie Plame / Joseph Wilson, their connections, the activities of Brewster-Jennings and the whole sordid history of nuclear and WMD proliferation merits further scrutiny.

Fitzgerald’s case will probably hardly scratch the surface.

Perhaps we’ll find out what the real truth is decades from now…maybe

Check out page 43 in the actual document or 53 in the pdf.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/senateiraqreport.pdf

The intelligence report based on the former ambassador’s [Wilson’s] trip was disseminated on March 8, 2002 … The intelligence report indicated that former Nigerian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mayaki…said that in June 1999, [redacted] businessman, approached him and insisted that Mayaki meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss “expanding commercial relations” between Niger and Iraq. The intelligence report said that Mayaki interpreted “expanding commercial relations” to mean that the delegation wanted to discuss uranium yellowcake sales.

No. The WaPo corrected that article. It’s in a box marked ‘Correction’ to the right of the original article. You did read the original article, didn’t you?

Oh, you didn’t. I see.

Thanks for the response.

Read this and let me know what you think:

Along with 1.77 tons of enriched uranium, about 1,000 “highly radioactive sources” were also removed.

The material was taken from a former nuclear research facility on 23 June, after being packaged by 20 experts from the US Energy Department’s secret laboratories.

It was flown out of the country aboard a military plane in a joint operation with the Department of Defense, and is being stored temporarily at a Department of Energy facility.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3872201.stm

This was in July of 2004.

This was the site that was left unattended by the US for 14 months after the invasion and was subsequently looted.

PURE uranium oxide which could be used in the making of a “dirty nuclear bomb” capable of killing countless people is being offered for sale in a Basra souk for $250,000.

Senior American officials have confirmed that rampant looting was discovered by US marines arriving at the al-Tuwaitha nuclear site on April 7.

[...]

John Large, a leading independent nuclear consultant, said the size and description of the cylinders “suggests this is enriched uranium”. He added: “A well-informed terrorist might be able to construct a crude nuclear device which would act like a mini-nuclear reactor and generate highly radioactive fission products for release into the urban atmosphere.”

Even if the uranium was not enriched, he says any radio active material is dangerous in the hands of terrorists because of its psychological impact. “The public perception of all things nuclear is of a fate worse than death. The use of even low-level uranium in a dirty bomb would cause widespread psychological and economic panic.”

http://www.sundayherald.com/35736
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So, I guess my question is, why go through all the trouble of creating the forgeries, when the yellowcake was already there in prodigious quantities ? And why didn’t the IAEA inspectors previously see to it that this crap was taken out of there ?

Noticed. Wonder if anyone in SISMI takes it personally that the US killed an agent and then said, “never happened.” ???

In a post 9/11 many placed alot of trust in a dictator who was a sworn enemy of the US.

According to the former Niger mining minister, Wilson told his CIA contacts, Iraq tried to buy 400 tons of uranium in 1998.

It’s also irrelevant to Wilson’s statements. Wilson’s did the hard research that turned up the proof that his friend the former minister, had made contact with an Iraqi searching to cut a deal for Uranium.

Newsmax isn’t merely partisan, it’s systematically dishonest. They’ve taken one of the biggest flaws in the yellowcake ploy, i.e., that Iraq already had it so the president’s scare tactic about Africa is silly, and turned it into faux support for the same dumb story for the same dumb people.

I guess you can’t fathom why a dictator might want a supply on the side that was not under UN control. Shame you can’t fit that thought into your brain. Same dumb analysis by the same dumb people.

With what? Their prodigious moustaches? Iraq had zero refining capacity, unless you count one centrifuge buried under a rosebush since before Gulf War I.

Newsmax isn’t merely partisan, it’s systematically dishonest. They’ve taken one of the biggest flaws in the yellowcake ploy, i.e., that Iraq already had it so the president’s scare tactic about Africa is silly, and turned it into faux support for the same dumb story for the same dumb people.
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