Friday, October 28, 2005
Italian Agent who Forged Iraqi Documents Was Working for France
In their zeal to report on "alleged" crimes in the "CIA leak" case, and spend 24/7 on what "potential" indictments might or might not come down, the American media missed this story (as usual): when it came to Saddam Hussein and his potential for getting uranium for a nuclear weapon, we were set up with fake documents by French intelligence.
Agent behind fake uranium documents worked for France
Where is the outrage over this story? Which US Senator, instead of castigating Harriet Miers, demanded a congressional inquiry? Where is the US State Department to call for a UN hearing over France's actions? And what media outlet is examining this story?
The answer: None, nada, zilch, bupkiss. And that appears to be the way it will remain.
In their zeal to report on "alleged" crimes in the "CIA leak" case, and spend 24/7 on what "potential" indictments might or might not come down, the American media missed this story (as usual): when it came to Saddam Hussein and his potential for getting uranium for a nuclear weapon, we were set up with fake documents by French intelligence.
Agent behind fake uranium documents worked for France
The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence service was to blame for bogus documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy material for nuclear bombs has admitted that he was in the pay of France.
The man, identified by an Italian news agency as Rocco Martino, was the subject of a Telegraph article earlier this month in which he was referred to by his intelligence codename, "Giacomo".
His admission to investigating magistrates in Rome on Friday apparently confirms suggestions that - by commissioning "Giacomo" to procure and circulate documents - France was responsible for some of the information later used by Britain and the United States to promote the case for war with Iraq.
Italian diplomats have claimed that, by disseminating bogus documents stating that Iraq was trying to buy low-grade "yellowcake" uranium from Niger, France was trying to "set up" Britain and America in the hope that when the mistake was revealed it would undermine the case for war, which it wanted to prevent.
Where is the outrage over this story? Which US Senator, instead of castigating Harriet Miers, demanded a congressional inquiry? Where is the US State Department to call for a UN hearing over France's actions? And what media outlet is examining this story?
The answer: None, nada, zilch, bupkiss. And that appears to be the way it will remain.
