CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER.

According to this post at Just One Minute, George Tenet, Condoleeza Rice and Jack Straw have all characterized Ambassador Wilson's report on Iraq seeking to buy uranium from Niger as follows. Through a third-party, Iraq approached Niger about expanding the two countries' commercial relations. This was understood by Niger to be an attempt to purchase uranium. However, no "contract" for the sale of uranium was entered into and given the security arrangements used in Niger, it is unlikely that any illicit transaction took place.

If this is what Ambassador Wilson found, how is it not true to say that "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa"? Why, exactly, has the administration opened up this issue? Posted by David Cohen at July 16, 2003 11:06 PM