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...story that much of the national-security apparatus regarded as bogus wind up in the most important speech of Bush's term? The evidence suggests that many in the Bush Administration simply wanted to believe it. The tale begins in the early 1980s, when Iraq made two purchases of uranium oxide from Niger totaling more than 300 tons. Known as "yellowcake," uranium oxide is a partially refined ore that, when combined with fluorine and then converted into a gas, can eventually be used to create weapons-grade uranium. No one disputes that Iraq had a nuclear-weapons program...
...Colin Powell that also disputed the Italian intelligence. Greg Thielmann, then a high-ranking official at State's research unit, told TIME that it was not in Niger's self-interest to sell the Iraqis the destabilizing ore. "A whole lot of things told us that the report was bogus," Thielmann said later. "This wasn't highly contested. There weren't strong advocates on the other side. It was done, shot down...
MARCH 2002: After an eight-day trip to Niger, Wilson returns and reports to the CIA that he believes the allegations are "bogus and unrealistic...
...remain under guard in a Phnom Penh hotel. According to officials, the group allegedly set up an illegal telephone network and had made nearly $30,000 worth of essentially free international calls over the Internet since June 27. Police believe the group was contacting gullible investors overseas to pump bogus savings schemes and worthless stocks. Such scams have long plagued the country's Southeast Asian neighbors, but Cambodia may have an added attraction: its loosely regulated NGOs. The detained foreigners are suspected of using as cover the Cambodian Rehabilitation and Development Program (CRDP). According to the government, CRDP was registered...
...claims." After Straw declined to name the two nations he said provided the U.K. with its yellowcake evidence, British press reports identified them as France and Italy. Both nations loudly begged to differ. The French were indignant. "No French service or administration was in any way connected to this bogus information," snaps a French diplomat, noting that France's foreign intelligence service issued a rare public denial. "We resent being made a scapegoat for this politicized intelligence crap." - BRUCE CRUMLEY/Paris...