April 30, 2004
SEND THE GUY WHO CAN'T TELL URANIUM FROM URANUS:
Book Names Iraqi in Alleged '99 Bid to Buy Uranium (Susan Schmidt, April 30, 2004, Washington Post)
It was Saddam Hussein's information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, often referred to in the Western press as "Baghdad Bob," who approached an official of the African nation of Niger in 1999 to discuss trade -- an overture the official saw as a possible effort to buy uranium.That's according to a new book Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who was sent to Niger by the CIA in 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq had been trying to buy enriched "yellowcake" uranium. Wilson wrote that he did not learn the identity of the Iraqi official until this January, when he talked again with his Niger source.
Maybe he'd have learned it if he ever left the hotel bar? But then the point of choosing him in the first place was that he not learn anything, wasn't it? Posted by Orrin Judd at April 30, 2004 6:25 PM
What will Wilson's defenders say now?
Posted by: jim hamlen at April 30, 2004 10:40 PMBut then the point of choosing him in the first place was that he not learn anything, wasn't it?
Exactly, which is why his wife's name got into it. Robert Novak and others wondered ''Why pick this guy?'', and asking around found out that his wife was CIA, which seems to have answered the question.
Posted by: PapayaSF at April 30, 2004 11:40 PMPeople asked "Who picked him?" and the answer was "His wife". And the Sauds bought his suits.
btw, it wasn't the hotel bar...it was the cabana. heh.
Posted by: Noel at May 1, 2004 2:37 PM