Who do you think forged the fake documents that tried to prove Saddam bought uranium?

Question

In case you want to know more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries

conranger, for your information, nobody disputes that they were forged. Except you.

Answer 1

It does really make you wonder doesn't it honey, you might want to check this out.

It's the timeline thing on this that makes me disbelieve anything wilson said.

Answer 2

I was surprised when President Bush stated in his most recent State of the Union Address that Saddam Hussein had recently been seeking to purchase uranium in Africa. Nevertheless, the notion was not at all implausible. The president has since admitted he was relying on faulty intelligence, and now paradoxically is having his credibility challenged (should he have not admitted?); but one reason the erroneous report may have had staying power inside the intelligence community is that Africa had been a major, long-term source for Iraq's uranium. And whether or not Saddam attempted such purchases in recent years, he successfully obtained large amounts before the first Gulf War.

Take Niger, for example, which has the fourth largest uranium reserves in the world. Prime Minister Hama Hamadou stated a few months ago that when Saddam sought to buy uranium in the 1980s, former president Seyni Kountche sent him packing. This is the same Seyni Kountche who in 1981 said that his country would sell uranium "even to the devil." Niger had begun uranium production ten years earlier, and among its loyal customers were Libya and Iraq, so Kountche may not have been exaggerating. He was no angel himself. In 1991, the reformist National Conference in Niger established that Kountche used billions in profits from uranium sales as a private slush fund, distributed to cronies, the military, and the secret police.

When the uranium market collapsed in the early 1980s, Niger's former colonial ruler France stepped in to mitigate the effects. France was an important uranium consumer, both to fuel its many nuclear plants, and to sell as an enriched product to other countries, such as Iraq. France had cooperated with Iraq in building the Osirak nuclear reactor, which was destroyed by Israel in June 1981. Other countries also fed Saddam's uranium habit — a 1993 IAEA report on the Iraqi nuclear program listed 580 tons of natural uranium inside Iraq originating from Brazil, Portugal, and, of course, Niger.

In addition, Iraq had a low-profile link to Somalian uranium. In 1984, Brazilian mining company Construtora Andrade Gutierrez announced a $300 million investment in a uranium mine in northern Somalia. The deal was to be financed by Banco do Brasil, and the host government agent was the Somali Arab Mining Company (Soarmico). Soarmico was itself a joint venture founded in 1978 between the Somali government, the Arab Mining Company based in Jordan, and Iraq. The project was beset by logistical and financial difficulties and it is unclear how much (if any) uranium ultimately made its way out of Somalia, especially before the country collapsed into anarchy. But you have to give Saddam credit for trying.

This is old information and not meant to try to substantiate the more recent claims, but it is important to discuss the issue with the benefit of some baseline facts. Saddam was a major buyer of African uranium in the years before the Gulf War; based on recent discoveries we know he retained a capability to reconstitute his nuclear program when the opportunity presented itself; and it would be reasonable to assume that he would seek replacement uranium for the hundreds of tons destroyed in earlier rounds of inspections. That is not intelligence so much as inference, but if one accepts the model, it is easy to see how someone might be overly eager to accept supporting evidence from a foreign intelligence service. Is this the stuff of congressional investigations? Must be a slow summer.

Answer 3

Count me as number two who doesn't believe they were forged! Especially after Irael bombed Saddam's nuclear production facility!

FYI: Here's a little cut and paste info for you to check out:

Israel shocks the world by destroying the Osirak nuclear plant near the Iraqi ... and Italians for supplying Iraq with nuclear materials and plegded to defend news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/.../7/newsid_3014000/3014623.stm -

...... for three nuclear bombs by 2005, a former Iraqi nuclear engineer told senators ... Iraq. Guardian Unlimited Politics: Britain and Iraq. Israel & the Middle East ...www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,767235,00.html

Later: If they are already fake why did they have to be forged? Just wondering.

Answer 4

I believe that I heard that the French actually did it to discredit the British intelligence. They still, in spite of French meddling, contend that it was accurate. There is little doubt, even supported by Wilson that Iraqis were there to buy "product" or some such thing. There is no question that Iraq tried to buy yellow cake from Niger. The bigger question is why would someone be so easily fooled by the French that Iraq wasn't trying to buy yellow cake.

Answer 5

The neocon Lie Factory AKA the Office Of Special Plans(OSP) or somebody connected therewith..I'd hazard to guess.
If it didn't it would be an exception as every other falsehood relating to Iraqi WMD seems to have emanated from there..
Its entire reason to exist seems to be to generate false pretexts for war. It's all very 1984-like.
they all should be arrested.

Answer 6

British intelligence, MI-6.
Israeli intelligence, Mossad.

Answer 7

MI-5 or Israel. Iran has benefited for the Iraq war so they had motive as well. Could have been a home grown operation under Cheney and Haliburton. Good question.

Answer 8

Secret Agent man Joe Wilson cleared that all up long ago..

Answer 9

Mickey Mouse? Who do you think told Joe Wilson to lie and say that Cheney sent him to Africa?

Answer 10

who do you think forged this question to make us think that the fake documents about Saddam and the uranium were forged?