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...Tony Blair - and also, possibly, by the efforts of Jordan's King Abdullah to facilitate back-channel communication between Washington and Tehran. Unlike North Korea, which, if anything, exaggerates its nuclear weapons capability, Iran insists it has no clandestine bomb program. But IAEA investigations have found evidence of secret uranium enrichment facilities, and the UN nuclear watchdog had put Iran on notice to sign an agreement accepting more intrusive inspections by October 31, or else. Again, although hawkish elements in the Bush administration had favored a more vigorous pursuit of "regime-change" in Tehran, Washington has pursued the issue...
After months of Administration officials trading accusations over whether the Niger uranium story is accurate and how it got into the State of the Union, senior officials disclose Wilson's mission and its findings to the Washington Post without identifying the former Ambassador...
...State of the Union address, President Bush cites British intelligence accusing Iraq of seeking uranium from Africa, despite months of debate between Administration officials over whether that intelligence is reliable. The claim had been cut from an October speech...
Only a week before the war with Iraq begins, Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, tells the U.N. Security Council that the claim is based on false evidence--the papers documenting uranium sales between Niger and Iraq are clear forgeries...
...report to Congress, David Kay said his 1,200-member inspection team had "not yet found stocks" of illicit weapons--no large caches of poison gas or germ agents, no proof that Saddam was remotely close to reconstituting a nuclear program and no evidence of an attempt to buy uranium from Africa. In fact, the report said an African country had offered uranium to Iraq, but Saddam apparently did not follow up. Kay even backed away from Bush's claim that two trucks found in April and may were mobile bioweapons labs, saying they could have been used for other...