> An interesting letter to President Bush
>
> Congressman Waxman's letter of March 17 to President Bush is truly a
> remarkable and concise document. This letter is much easier to read in
> a PDF format, which can be found on Mr. Waxman's Congressional
> website. Here is the URL for the Waxman letter:
>
> http://www.reform.house.gov/min/pdfs/pdf_inves/
> pdf_admin_iraq_nuclear_evidence_march_17_let.pdf
>
> Here are some newspaper articles about the fraudulent Niger uranium
> letters:
>
> 3/8/03 Washington Post. "Some evidence on Iraq called fake", by Joby
> Warrick.
>
> 3/8/03 New York Times. "U.N. Inspectors: U.S. Used Forged Reports",
> by Associated Press.
>
> 3/13/03 Washington Post. "FBI probes fake evidence of Iraqi nuclear
> plans", by Dana Priest &Susan Schmidt.
>
> 3/18/03 Washington Post. "Bush clings to dubious allegations about
> Iraq", by Walter Pincus &Dana Millbank.
>
> NOTE: I don't recall viewing any news story on TV dealing with the
> forged uranium letteers!
>
> But according to an Australian website (news.com.au), there's an
> interesting story dated 12/27/02 entitled "Uranium rich Niger rebuffed
> Iraq", by Dalatou Mamane, in Niamey, Niger. This story states that in
> the 1980s, Iraq sought to buy uranium from Niger, but Niger
> authorities then refused to sell it to Iraq because Niger is a
> signatory to international arms conventions.
>
> So yes, Iraq once tried to buy uranium from Niger, but that happened
> in the 1980s, well before the UN Security Council adopted Resolution
> 687 on 3 April 1991, which prohibited Iraq from such purchase.