London paper will identify who forged Niger documents

[valerief]

RAW STORY
Published: Saturday April 8, 2006

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The LONDON SUNDAY TIMES' Michael Smith -- who first broke the infamous Downing Street Memo -- will identify who is believed to have forged the documents that formed the basis for President George W. Bush's infamous 16 words this evening, RAW STORY has learned. Smith will explain the chain of events in painstaking detail.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/London_paper_will_identify_who_forged_0408.html

[MnFats]

1. Oh, boy, more good news for Bush!

Bush: "It could be worse."
Cheney: "How?!?!"
Bush: "It could be raining."
A downpour begins.

(with props to Mel Brooks etc.)

[pk_du]

2. Here are some names/characters that will appear IMHO

One Italian Journo
One SISMI ( Italian CIA) Operative
One Michael Ledeen

[joemurphy]

3. Lotsa people go with Ledeen in some form or fashion. n/t

[valerief]

4. Thanks. Found this on Ledeen.

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/08/yellow-cake-and-black-shirts.html

Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Yellow Cake and Black Shirts
We should have been paying attention all along, but particularly since the sadly unsurprising revelation that Italian military intelligence looks to have served as a linchpin in the Niger "Yellow Cake" caper, we would do well to brush up on the strange case of Michael Ledeen

[cliss]

9. Yes, I'm almost positive it's an

Italian operative. That's the last I heard, before that story faded away.

The story is in the archives, no doubt.
(interesting) The Italians are not out of the mess, yet.

[Windy]

5. When is this article supposed to come out? n/t

[mdmc]

6. I thought that the yellowcake statement was "true"

but it was 22 years old. Iraq did try to buy yellowcake in the 80's.:shrug:

[OKNancy]

7. Sunday, but they usually publish it sooner

I'll be checking their website often. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,2086,00.html
It probably won't be long. I will be interested in reading the actual article.

[Pirate Smile]

8. This is the real smoking gun - who forged the documents to form a

basis to start the war.