Iraq's alleged nuclear program + faked documents

Steven mailinglist at navari.com
Tue Mar 25 09:17:57 PST 2003


Received this from a friend who did the translation...

http://www.headliner.nl/headliner.php?c=nl&id=89591&abbr=telegraaf

Dutch newspaper 'De Telegraaf' (rightwing) just put this article up on their site (my translation):

'Faked documents about Irak'

Vienna (AFP) - UN inspectors found out within a couple of hours that the documents that were supposed to prove Iraq was working on a nuclear program were faked. This was reported by an anonymous source within the UN.

The US and UK handed the UN inspectors a number of documents early his month that supposedly showed that Iraq tried to import 500 ton of uranium from Niger.

In a security council meeting on March 7 IAEA's director Mohammed el-Baradei made public the proof was faked.

The anonymous UN employee said on Tuesday that the fakes in two documents were spotted immediately. At the end on one letter that was allegedly written by the president of Niger was a signature that was obviously not his.

Another letter from 2000 was signed by a former Niger minister who hasn't been in power since 1989.

The UN inspectors then presented the documents to an international team of forensic experts, including Brits and Americans. They unanimously reached the conclusion that this evidence was faked, the anonymous UN source said.

End translation



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