Yet it now seems that the intelligence on which such claims are based is haphazard

Yet it now seems that the intelligence on which such claims are based is haphazard, scanty and

contradictory

And now we know why. It was just more faked, cooked up propaganda, not “intelligence” at all. This is

how the MBT Party “supports the troops.”

La Repubblica has another story today on the role of Italian intelligence in feeding bogus evidence on

Niger to Hadley and others in the US and elsewhere. There’s one key piece of new information. UK

intelligence claimed to have evidence independent of the forged documents, which showed that Iraq had

indeed been trying to obtain uranium in Niger. According to La Repubblica:

This “evidence” has never been brought forward … “If it ever were brought forward,” said a source

in Forte Braschi to la Repubblica, with a smile, “it would be discovered, with red faces, that it was

Italian intelligence collected by SISMI at the end of the 1980’s, and shared with our friend Hamilton

McMillan.”