Italy provided US with faulty uranium intelligence, intel officials insist

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Posted on Fri, Nov. 04, 2005

Italy provided U.S. with faulty uranium intelligence, officials insist

By Jonathan S. Landay

Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Contrary to Italian government denials, a powerful Italian military intelligence agency passed bogus allegations to the United States of an Iraqi effort to buy uranium ore from the African nation of Niger for a nuclear bomb program, U.S. officials said Friday.

<>Four U.S. officials said the Italian military intelligence agency known as SISMI passed three reports to the CIA station in Rome between October 2001 and March 2002 outlining an alleged deal for Iraq to buy uranium ore, known as yellowcake, from Niger. Yellowcake is refined into the uranium fuel that powers nuclear weapons.

The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because portions of the matter remain classified.

<>A July 2004 Senate Intelligence Committee report said three reports on the alleged deal were passed to the CIA during that period, but it didn't disclose the name of the foreign intelligence service that provided them.

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1. How can FBI contradict the findings of Robert's Senate Intel Committee?

And will any of the Sunday news show anchors notice?

Is Mueller's Bush's bitch, too?