BBC taking the world for a ride ;-)

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See for yourself: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3064441.stm

Where the Bush camp has retracted its statements about the Iraq-Niger uranium deal, the British government says it had intelligence which was not shared with the US. May we know why?

Some interesting text:

Was the original memorandum not found to be a forgery?
Yes. This was the memorandum which came to the CIA and which launched the Wilson mission in 2002. In March this year the head of the IAEA Mohamed ElBaradei told the UN that "these documents are in fact not authentic." The documents were faxes apparently exchanged between Iraq and Niger - but it turned out, for example, that they carried the alleged signatures of people not in the Niger Government at the time. Why they were not found to be forgeries earlier is not known.

Did this not shake British confidence?
Apparently not. Britain is standing by its report from the unnamed foreign intelligence service. Mr Straw has told the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee that the British knew nothing about the memorandum and that the first Britain knew about the forgery was when it was reported in the press.

And the part about holding back such vital information from each other. It's either plain funny or plain evil.

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