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...hard-liners tried to flatten Wilson. A year before the war began, he had been sent by the CIA to investigate British intelligence claims that Saddam was trying to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. Wilson seemed like an understandable choice for the secret CIA mission: he had been a diplomat in Niger in the '70s and had been the last U.S. envoy to meet Saddam before George H.W. Bush began the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. The yellowcake story was tantalizing to hard-liners because it backed their hunch that Saddam had been trying to acquire the makings...
...double-barreled leak had two targets. One was to tag Wilson as a tired, second-rate diplomat who couldn't get a job without his wife's help. The leakers also wanted to drop the hint that the CIA had purposefully chosen someone it believed would come back with a skeptical finding...
...Wilson appears in the New York Times. He reveals that he is the retired diplomat who visited Niger and accuses the Administration of twisting intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat. The next day the White House admits the claim should not have been in the State of the Union but suggests that the CIA was responsible...
...Take, for example, Seynabou Ba, 35, who was born in Senegal and moved with her diplomat father to a different country every few years, including the U.S. and Russia. "I'm very different from women in Senegal but also very different from European women," she says. Her hybrid identity didn't always sit easy, and was something she only began to resolve when she was in her 20s. Today, it's an advantage. "I think that's why it's so easy for me to move from one country to the next. On the positive side, I'm very adaptable...
...intelligence and "was not at all to please the Americans or anyone else." Nor, he said, was it a response to the release of a tape last week in which Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for the overthrow of Musharraf's government. A Western diplomat in Islamabad also viewed the raid?which involved hundreds of Pakistani soldiers, two of whom were killed?as an indication that Pakistan is getting more serious in the fight against terror: "It was quite a bold move, because this is an area where the government has rarely operated." Security analyst Talat...