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...July 14, 2003 column in the Washington Post, Novak said that two unnamed administration sources had told him that Plame was involved in the CIA?s decision to send her husband to Africa in 2002 to investigate a tip that Iraq had tried to purchase enriched uranium from Niger for its nuclear weapons program. In early July 2003, Wilson wrote an op-ed in the New York Times accusing President Bush of relying on discredited intelligence when he cited the Niger-Iraq link in making the case for invading Iraq and ousting Saddam Hussein. Novak suggested in his column that...
...bloodiest fighting of the four-year-old intifadeh, as Israeli tanks rolled into northern Gaza and troops sought to create a buffer zone along the border. Palestinian militant group Hamas said it would continue its rocket attacks. Oil on Troubled Waters NIGERIA A truce between the government and Niger Delta rebels calmed fears of regional unrest that had helped send oil prices spiraling to more than $50 per bbl. The Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force said it would disarm after the government agreed to discuss its demands for greater regional autonomy and a share of oil wealth. The NDPVF...
...message to the enemy, says the President - conservative columnist Robert Novak claims administration sources have told him the Bush administration plans to withdraw from Iraq next year. (This being the same Robert Novak through whom senior administration officials allegedly named Valerie Plame, the wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson of Niger uranium probe fame, as a CIA agent.) Novak says his administration sources tell him that Iraq's election, scheduled for January, will be used as a pretext for withdrawing, even though the insurgency will still be raging and civil war will result. While some of what Novak's sources have...
...company, even after announcements last week that they are fining Shell a combined $150 million for "unprecedented misconduct," in the words of the FSA. And Nigeria's Senate passed a resolution calling on the company to pay $1.5 billion for environmental and health hazards it allegedly caused in the Niger Delta. But with Shell stock at about $7.30 a share in London , or just over 11 times its estimated earnings this year, and other Big Oil stocks such as BP and Exxon Mobil trading closer to 14 times earnings, that suggests: buy. "We can't help but think there...
Abdou Alassane Dji Bo's Olympic debut lasted just 1 min. 33 sec., but he didn't come out feeling like a loser. The 25-year-old judoist, the first from Niger ever to compete at the Games, crashed out in the first round of the 66-kg weight class, in a bout with Slovakia's Jozef Krnac that resembled a very fast two-man game of Twister. "Of course in my heart, it hurt to lose," Alassane says. But the point of this trip for Alassane - and for Olympic Solidarity (OS), the scholarship program that has given him more...