Is Niger the smoking gun?

[tinnypriv]

Is Niger the smoking gun?
The Independent, 9 July 2003

Blair under fire as White House rejects British intelligence claiming Iraq tried to buy uranium.

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The White House has dealt a devastating blow to Tony Blair by rejecting as flawed British claims that Saddam Hussein attempted to buy uranium from Africa to restart his nuclear weapons programme.

The Bush administration was in full retreat yesterday with officials admitting that the allegation should not have been included in President George Bush's State of the Union address. The American admission represented the first serious split between London and Washington over the case against Saddam and exploded into a full-scale row in Westminster as Mr Blair told senior MPs that the Government was standing by its story.

Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour backbenchers demanded that Mr Blair release the intelligence behind the allegation to an independent inquiry.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=422957

[Capt_Nemo]

1. Bump!

[Flubadubya]

2. The nests of vipers...

on both sides of the pond need to be brought down. If it takes Tony coming down first, so be it... as long as Georgie isn't far behind.

[T_i_B]

3. Is Tony Blair a liar?

Do bears shit in the woods?

This is EXACTLY the question the Blairites do not want you to ask. The BBC row has been got in to distract attention from the Niger claims made by Blair & co. Keep this thread up at the top and keep asking these questions of "new" labour folks!

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[T_i_B]

4. Kick for an important article

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