26 October 2005

Laura Rozen's latest on Nigergate

here on one hand Pollari wants so badly to be chummy with the architechts of our wonderful war... but on the other hand, they've issued arrest warrants for 13 Agency spooks for the kidnapping of an Egyptian-born cleric. How, incongruent.
In an explosive series of articles appearing this week in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, investigative reporters Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe d'Avanzo report that Nicolo Pollari, chief of Italy's military intelligence service, known as Sismi, brought the Niger yellowcake story directly to the White House after his insistent overtures had been rejected by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2001 and 2002. Sismi had reported to the CIA on October 15, 2001, that Iraq had sought yellowcake in Niger, a report it also plied on British intelligence, creating an echo that the Niger forgeries themselves purported to amplify before they were exposed as a hoax.

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