Nuke group exposed Niger fraud in 'days'

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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33669

IAEA quickly spotted errors in letters that escaped U.S. intelligence for months

Posted: July 21, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern


By Paul Sperry
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – The International Atomic Energy Agency was able to figure out in just 10 days something that had escaped U.S. intelligence for months – that documents alleging Iraq recently sought uranium from Africa were forgeries, an IAEA letter to Congress reveals.

With the help of the Internet, IAEA officials quickly spotted crude errors in letters claiming to be signed by officials of Niger in 2000. One is allegedly from a foreign minister who had been out of office for 11 years. Another, allegedly from the president of Niger, bears an obsolete presidential seal on the letterhead.

The Vienna, Austria-based group, which has conducted regular nuclear inspections in Iraq, received the documents from the Bush administration in early February, after first requesting them in December. The State Department, for one, had them since October.

The president delivered his State of the Union speech, which included the uranium charge, on Jan. 28.

The documents included an alleged agreement by Niger for the delivery to Iraq of "two lots of 500 tons each of uranium over two years," said IAEA spokesman Piet de Klerk in a June 20 letter to the House Government Reform Committee.

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1. Anyone and any group is "faster" than US intel, which is an

Oxymoron!

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2. dupe

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