Forgers of key Iraq war contract named

[killerbush]

2 employees of the Niger consolate in Rome are responsible for the forgery of classified documents the Bush administration used to go to war with Iraq back in 2003 the London Sunday Times will report.

The 2 are Adam Maiga Zakariaou and Laura Montini. They say they forged the documents because they needed money. Bush used these forged documents in the 2003 state of the union address to bolster his claim that Iraq was trying to get unranium from Niger in order to make nuclear weapons. The Niger claims were irresistable to the Bush speechwriters who were trying to come up with a plan to make the American people believe that Saddam wanted the Niger uranium.

http;//www.rawstory.com

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2125630,00.html

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Mods, place this in "Three Year-Old Breaking News."

Thanks in advance.

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3. the details (the authors, e.g.) appear to be new info.

news to me anyway.

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13. :tongueincheek:

[rodeodance]

14. yes, this is.

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15. We knew it was Sismi three years ago.

A little more detail never hurts.

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17. keeps the Irag war lies at forefront.

[LynnTheDem]

5. Exact date; October 7, 2002.

And bush is the cause of more Americans dead than OBL.

For lies & forgeries bush KNEW were lies & forgeries.

May every bush-bot warmongering rightwingnut, along with bush & his entire Cabal, rot in Hell for eternity you MFers.

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2. "a lot of money ... from an 'unspecified' intelligence agency"?

hmmmmmm....

[LynnTheDem]

8. OSP

[jazzjunkysue]

4. We knew they were forged a while ago, but not by who. Names? Yes!!

Let's hear it for the Sunday London Times! The only paper the Bush crime family cannot silence.

That's 4 in one week:
1. Office of Homeland Pedophilia Busted
2. Delay Offed
3. Bush found his leaker
4. We went to war over forged documents

Can this get any better?

[rodeodance]

18. AND Michael Smith --the guy the US media ignors--[DSM reporter]

[seemslikeadream]

6. Read this

Josh Marshall Blows away "London Times" Niger Forgeries Article!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x883776

[jazzjunkysue]

7. Here's the Times Link

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2125630,00.html

'Forgers' of key Iraq war contract named
Michael Smith

TWO employees of the Niger embassy in Rome were responsible for the forgery of a notorious set of documents used to help justify the Iraq war, an official investigation has allegedly found.
According to Nato sources, the investigation has evidence that Niger’s consul and its ambassador’s personal assistant faked a contract to show Saddam Hussein had bought uranium ore from the impoverished west African country.

The documents, which emerged in 2002, were used in a US State Department fact sheet on Iraq’s weapons programme to build the case for war. They were denounced as forgeries by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) shortly before the 2003 invasion

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16. love this line: The White House retaliated~~~~(aka, the Leaker-in Chief_

......After the IAEA had dismissed the forged documents, the Americans disowned all the Iraq-Niger uranium claims. But the latest allegations are unlikely to end the row.

This springs from the mission of Joseph Wilson, a former American ambassador, who was sent to Niger to check the uranium claims.

Wilson dismissed the possibility of Iraq obtaining uranium and publicly attacked Bush’s claims. The White House retaliated, with officials briefing journalists that Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA agent. Naming an undercover agent is illegal in America.

Last week, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a former aide to Cheney, told the inquiry into the leak that the vice-president ordered the briefings and that Bush had authorised them.

[jazzjunkysue]

19. And how delicious: A white house aid confirmed it friday!

It's treason. Period. What a week.

[Moderator]

9. killerbush, please correct your headline to read:

'Forgers' of key Iraq war contract named, to match the Times piece, thank you.

[killerbush]

12. I did, thanks

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10. I saw this morning in UK paper that someone was going to release this

later.

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11. Michael Smith--same reporter as all the DMS stories folks.

[callous taoboy]

20. "because they needed money" fuck

"Will work for getting the U.S. involved in an unwinnable war."