["El Baradei's disclosure, and his rejection of three other key
claims that U.S. intelligence officials have cited to support
allegations about Iraq's nuclear ambitions, struck a powerful blow
to the Bush administration's argument on the matter."--"FBI Probes Fake Papers
on Iraq," MSNBC, March 13, 2003]
["As the Bush administration tries to make the case to America and
the world that Iraq is trying to rebuild its nuclear weapons
program, some top United Nations officials contend that key evidence
against Iraq is crumbling."--"Is Weapons Case Against Iraq
Disintegrating?," ABC News, March 10, 2003]
["A key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program
appears to have been fabricated, the United Nations' chief nuclear
inspector said yesterday in a report that called into question U.S.
and British claims about Iraq's secret nuclear ambitions."--Joby
Warrick, "Some Evidence on Iraq Called Fake," Washington Post,
March 8, 2003]
["Only one tip from U.S. intelligence is known to have produced
results. In January, inspectors recovered a cache of documents at
the home of an Iraqi nuclear scientist. Although the seizure made
headlines, the documents concerned Iraq's long-abandoned efforts on
laser enrichment of uranium and did not answer current questions
about Iraqi weapons."--Bob Drogin and Greg Miller, "Top
Inspectors Criticize CIA Data on Iraqi Sites," Los Angeles
Times, March 8, 2003]
Don Sellar, "Who forged the Niger uranium papers?," Toronto Star,
January 3, 2004
"Iraqi
Nuclear Scientist Denies British Uraniun Claim," Associated Press, August 12, 2004
Peter Eisner, "How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War:
Intelligence Failures Surrounded Inquiry on Iraq-Niger Uranium Claim,"
Washington Post, April 3, 2007
[Tony Blair's key claim that Saddam Hussein could develop a nuclear weapon
in "between one and two years" was fabricated for public
consumption.--Christopher Ames, "Revealed: the Iraq
deceit," New Statesman, May 7, 2007]
