The Wall Street Journal has been "reliably told" details of last October's National Intelligence Estimate regarding the Iraq-Africa Uranium dealie.
Some snippets:
The section on Iraq's hunt for uranium, for example, asserts bluntly that "Iraq also began vigorously trying to procure uranium ore and yellowcake" and that "acquiring either would shorten the time Baghdad needs to produce nuclear weapons."
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"a foreign government service reported that as of early 2001 Niger planned to send several tons of 'pure uranium' (probably yellowcake) to Iraq. As of early 2001, Niger and Iraq reportedly were still working out arrangements for this deal, which could be for up to 500 tons of yellowcake. We do not know the status of this arrangement."
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"reports indicate Iraq also has sought uranium ore from Somalia and possibly the Democratic Republic of the Congo." It then adds that "we cannot confirm whether Iraq has succeeded in acquiring uranium ore and/or yellowcake from these sources."
This would seem to go against the Democratic "They've known for a year and a half and have been lying to us the whole time and everybody in the administration should resign or be impeached" line, and the Congo and Niger parts would seem to make the forged Niger documents angle unimportant. Remember in the SOTU Bush said Africa, not Niger.
