July 20, 2004

THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE:

NYTimes.com > Corrections (July 20, 2004)

Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about British prewar intelligence on Iraq misstated the location cited by President Bush in his State of the Union address when he talked about Iraqi efforts to acquire uranium. Basing his comments on a British report, the president said Iraq had made those efforts in Africa. He did not specifically mention Niger, though that country was identified several weeks earlier — along with Somalia and Congo — in the National Intelligence Estimate provided to members of Congress on Iraqi purchase attempts.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 20, 2004 1:39 PM
Comments

Just as with last week's correction on the fake turkey story, odds are some reporter and editor won't bother to look at this admission of error, and the same mistake will end up back in the Times at least once between now and Nov. 2.

Posted by: John at July 20, 2004 6:13 PM

"... though that country ..."

Weasels.

Posted by: Jeff Guinn at July 20, 2004 9:46 PM
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