Oh, guess what...? Niger FORGED the documents...

well, this has been the rumor all along but, by all means, let's get the rest of the cards on the table...

step into the spotlight, ambassador wilson, and take a bow - and will SOMEBODY please go collar george before he gets away...? he's a slippery little devil...

Two employees of the Niger embassy in Rome were responsible for the forgery of a notorious set of documents used to help justify the Iraq war, an official investigation allegedly found, The London Sunday Times' Mick Smith will report in Sunday papers, RAW STORY has learned.

According to NATO sources who spoke to the SUNDAY TIMES, the investigation has evidence that Niger's consul and its ambassador's personal assistant faked a contract to show Saddam Hussein had bought uranium ore from the impoverished west African country.

The documents, which emerged in 2002, were used in a State Department fact sheet on Iraq's weapons programme to build the case for war. They were denounced as forgeries by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) shortly before the 2003 invasion.

According to the SUNDAY TIMES' sources, an official investigation believes Niger's Adam Maiga Zakariaou, the consul, and Laura Montini, the ambassador's personal assistant, known as La Signora, forged the papers for money.

now, do we get to find out what "unspecified 'intelligence' organization" put up the money...? this is a LOT more suspenseful than CSI but you really have to have both the patience and the stomach for it...

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