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...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 in the 1980s, but it was dismantled...
Finally, late in 2001, the Italian government came into possession of evidence suggesting that Iraq was again trying to purchase yellowcake from Niger. Rome's source provided half a dozen letters and other documents alleged to be correspondence between Niger and Iraqi officials negotiating a sale. The Italians' evidence was shared with both Britain...
...intelligence community. "There's a limit to that. Patience runs out. People demand accountability." It looks like accountability time has come. For weeks President Bush and Prime Minister Blair have been fending off accusations that they knew the British-supplied intelligence suggesting Saddam Hussein sought yellowcake uranium from Niger - a primary justification for war - was wrong...
GLOAGUEN/RAPHO H. STRANGE GOLD: Niger yellowcake...
...seems that at least a part of the disputed evidence accusing Saddam Hussein of seeking uranium in Niger originated with the Italian secret service. Was there political pressure to find proof of weapons of mass destruction? There was no political pressure. I had no knowledge of these facts...