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AntiWar
October 29, 2005

Clumsy forgeries, Italian style

Dr. James Gordon Prather
Nuclear weapons physicist
Nuclear bomb tester at Lawrence Livermore
Technical director of nuclear bomb testings at Sandia
Chief scientist of the U.S. Army
U.S. Navy veteran

The March 2005 report (http://www.wmd.gov/report) of the Commission on the
Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
contained a scathing chapter on the "intelligence" President Bush used to justify
Operation Iraqi Freedom:

As war loomed, the U.S. intelligence community was charged with telling
policy-makers what it knew about Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons
programs. The community's best assessments were set out in an October 2002 National
Intelligence Estimate, or NIE, a summation of the community's views.

These assessments were all wrong.
The Senate Intelligence Committee had already come to similar conclusions about the
quality of the intelligence. Now, the committee is "supposed" to be investigating how
the administration used – or misused – that intelligence to build public support for
the war.

The invasion and occupation of Iraq was a top priority for the Bush-Cheney
administration, and every weenie in the White House, the Pentagon, the State
Department, the neo-crazies in and out government and their media sycophants knew it.

Moreover, Bush-Cheney made sure many weenies – in and out of government – in London,
Paris and Rome knew it, too.

You see, Bush-Cheney needed an excuse and a rationale to invade Iraq.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, gave them the excuse.

How about a rationale?

Well, the only justification for a pre-emptive invasion of Iraq acceptable to you
soccer moms would be proof positive that Saddam had – or soon would have – nukes.

But there was a problem. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had already
certified in 1998 – before being forced to exit Iraq to avoid being killed
accidentally by Clinton's bombing of Baghdad – that there no longer existed in Iraq
any "indication" of a capability to produce nukes or the makings, thereof.

So, Cheney-Wolfowitz had to come up with "intelligence" proving Saddam had engaged in
nuke-related activities in 1999 or 2000.

In December 2001, Cheney and his "cabal" began promoting within our intelligence
community and with neo-crazy media sycophants two bits of "intelligence" provided by
"the intelligence service of a foreign government."

One was that Saddam had recently attempted to buy specialized high-strength aluminum
tubes, which Cheney and his cabal insisted – despite the opinions of experts to the
contrary – could only be used as rotors in uranium-enrichment gas centrifuges.

The other was that Iraq had recently arranged to buy up to 500 tons of
uranium-oxide – "yellowcake" – from Niger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake_forgery

After nine months of concerted effort, Cheney and his cabal managed to get both these
bits of "intelligence" incorporated into the October 2002 NIE cited by the
Commission.

Now – on the eve of a federal indictiment against Cheney aide Lewis Libby
(http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/libby/libby.php) in the CIA-Plame affair
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair) – come investigative reporters Carlo
Bonini and Giuseppe d'Avanzo to post this blockbuster expose [Part 1:
http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2005/10/berlusconi-behind-fake-yellowcake.html and
Part 2:
http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2005/10/yellowcake-dossier-not-work-of-cia.html ] at
the "La Repubblica" magazine's website:

The military intervention in Iraq was justified by two revelations: Saddam
attempted to acquire unprocessed uranium (yellowcake) in Niger for enrichment with
centrifuges built with aluminum tubes imported from Europe. The fabricators of the
twin hoaxes (there was never any trace in Iraq of unprocessed uranium or centrifuges)
were the Italian government and Italian military intelligence.

They are the same two hoaxes that Judith Miller
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller_%28journalist%29), the reporter who
betrayed her newspaper, published (together with Michael Gordon) on September 8,
2002.

According to Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe d'Avonzo, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi) – who wanted to curry favor with
President Bush, who had already asked him to provide any "intelligence" the Italians
had that might indicate Saddam was reconstructing his nuke programs – sent Nicolo
Pollari
(http://www.serviziinformazionesicurezza.gov.it/pdcweb.nsf/pagine/ee_direttoresismi),
the Italian equivalent of our director of central intelligence, to meet with Stephen
Hadley (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/hadley/hadley.php), then-deputy national
security adviser to Bush in the White House on September 9, 2002.

Nicolo Pollari later told the Italian Parliament's intelligence oversight committee
that he told Stephen Hadley: "We had documentary proof of the acquisition by Iraq of
uranium ore from a central African nation. We also know of an Iraqi attempt to
purchase centrifuges for uranium enrichment from German and possibly Italian
manufacturers".

That same week that Nicolo Pollari met with Stephen Hadley, Silvio Berlusconi caused
an article to be published in Panorama – a magazine Berlusconi owns – entitled "War
with Iraq? It has already begun" wherein the "intelligence" provided Hadley is
"confirmed".

The actual "documentation" for the arranged purchase of yellowcake by Iraq from Niger
was delivered to the U.S. embassy in Rome October 9, 2002.

Someone leaked that documentation to the IAEA just days before Bush invaded Iraq,
with Silvio Berlusconi in tow. Within a matter of hours, the IAEA pronounced the
documents "clumsy" forgeries.

* Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing official for
national security-related technical matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy
Research and Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the
Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as
legislative assistant for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon,
R-Okla. --ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate
Energy Committee and Appropriations Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a
nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(http://www.llnl.gov) in California and Sandia National Laboratory
(http://www.sandia.gov) in New Mexico. http://www.antiwar.com/prather

IAEA and Iran
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Focus/IaeaIran/index.shtml

IAEA is doing Israel's bidding
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/953912efce75cbd9?hl=en

Fixing and forging intelligence
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4c6663c968fd5f6c?hl=en

Stifling neo-crazy media sycophants
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8790e709a9a122b4?hl=en

After 2 years of intrusive go-anywhere see-anything ask-anybody inspections!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a545047699722ca7?hl=en

Nobel's peaceful kick to the groin
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/22f9662d106ce9c4?hl=en

Bolton the Peacemaker
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/de17232f52db3933?hl=en

Saving Face
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7da8706c13c8a059?hl=en

West does not seek the elimination of nukes, but rather the establishment of nuclear
monopoly
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/502efbdfaa7622f7?hl=en

Unratified additional protocol
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1b2b77819b38d9e3?hl=en

The high price of hounding Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7c854d944d6e061d?hl=en

Such a Blot
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/43ee2e2149e17310?hl=en

Weapons of Mass Murder
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0f3f87b645a72fde?hl=en

Neocrazies Foiled
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/86df9c0e9c38d475?hl=en

Iran knocks Europe out
By Pepe Escobar
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/497a81cb3c315c65?hl=en

UN opens a Pandora's Box of "Iran exceptionalism"
Dr. Kaveh Afrasiabi
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/24bfe5a318d9a222?hl=en

There is Nothing to refer to UN Security Council
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/76824d9387903d4a?hl=en

WMD Postmortem
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d02537756cafca8?hl=en

No wonder the West is so mad at Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/83e63797f1a1af3b?hl=en

Bolton in a China Shop
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9927bb4f65924e34?hl=en

JEW media sycophants & 36% HEU - IRAN told the truth, yet JEW keeps lying
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f90a6eef507f10a0?hl=en

Past Arguments Don't Square With Current Iran Policy
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f53d3a05bc5403c1?hl=en

The fuel behind Iran's nuclear drive
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2fcf81313deb4ae0?hl=en

The U.S. and Iran: Democracy, Terrorism, and Nuclear Weapons
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d0dcf76abbaafb1?hl=en

NO Nuclear double standards
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8e41f4a8a1a3e04c?hl=en

Backlash Builds Against Cheney's 'Guns of August'
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8286b2b389247d0a?hl=en

An offer Iran MUST refuse
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/743b96400831f8a1?hl=en

Zero Tolerance
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1641ae424fde5b89?hl=en

Sino-Russian Guarantees?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bd8f5389ab0e8956?hl=en

More neo-crazy media sycophant LIES about Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d3fe84a9b64d20bc?hl=en

What The Neo-Crazies Knew
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6b45fabf57726a03?hl=en

EU vs. Iran - Who's Right?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/cbce70a3093360fb?hl=en

Iran should refer U.S. to Security Council for violating UNSCR-984
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d54ef8e41b971bf?hl=en

Castration of NPT - U.S. instantly tore up NPT for India, so why should Iran obey a
torn up agreement!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2c234f4a148cd298?hl=en

U.S. ripped NPT into pieces; Iran must withdraw from this annulled treaty
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fbf55e939908b2c2?hl=en

U.S. proliferation rhetoric and reality
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7d8c268ee51c07be?hl=en

Ambassador Bolton's Agenda
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1ca916601b7a7bc8?hl=en

Iran's INALIENABLE RIGHT to uranium enrichment
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/245f6081b4e3d019?hl=en

A Palliative for Neo-Crazy Lies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1b7968f98173938d?hl=en

Inalienable right without discrimination
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/5012a673328fa044?hl=en

U.S. doesn't want to disarm even though it promised to do so
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c0b86cad11cb9413?hl=en

UN Referral – Not
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bddc928154c8c96a?hl=en

What Iranian obligations? What breaches? America's lies, lies, lies...
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9535c4a90df98471?hl=en

Memo to slimy senators
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7065ffd57b51a959?hl=en

U.S. promised in 2000, to get rid of it's nukes!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1e23bafecdac9e82?hl=en

U.S. has violated Iran's NPT rights!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/02f1f48fafcac2b6?hl=en

Iran's diplomatic masterpiece
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f532352654efee1d?hl=en

Bush to sabotage NPT
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6386adef83860d3e?hl=en

West's repeated violations of "Article IV & I" against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0123ceb12dd47321?hl=en

Israel guns for Iran - Why?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2c0274540f3957b7?hl=en

U.S. wants definition of NPT 'noncompliance' changed!!!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2abab5a7b8bce4c5?hl=en

NTP for dummies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f317bb918ca244da?hl=en

CNN's Wolf Blitzer & David Albright: Jews global campaign against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/44fcd2a53218eb52?hl=en

The Real Threat From John Bolton
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/16fb61c3cca32703?hl=en

81-mm smoking rockets
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fb2c580ba00d79a6?hl=en

U.S. plans to destroy NPT
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/760abaff1d8ac7c2?hl=en

Nuts to Bush
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/de936f823b4dfb11?hl=en

Iran's logic proven correct to the entire World
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a5798de678dad2a9?hl=en

Sandbagging the NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group)
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/238000abe8fe032e?hl=en

What Noncompliance?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/32f537772749ecc2?hl=en

Sandbagging the EU
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bb437d1ee00ad1e9?hl=en

Bye-Bye, NPT
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/eb8e9f617d0e0867?hl=en

Jew tells Bush to lie about Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c96849f55f92353e?hl=en

Targeting Non-existent Nukes?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e25e86754767e3ef?hl=en

Blindly Backing Israel Against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ca49370dcc1f41a4?hl=en

Condi Desperate to Stop EU-China-Iran Chain Reaction
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/26e6a24b43339654?hl=en

The Impossible Dream in the State of the Union Address
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/74938ea7958d0764?hl=en

Targeting Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dbb46af7ff3f0b66?hl=en

Bay of Pigs part 2, CIA-Israeli-MEK
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/b58f2a1d8b2290ff?hl=en

Threatening Iran - despite the evidence
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ce6e09919da68cbb?hl=en

Virtual Nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c245e595ad17ae57?hl=en

Iran's having the capability to enrich uranium is not even tantamount to having the
capability to produce the essentially pure uranium-235 required to make a nuke
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/303c3ca53b67c0a7?hl=en

Dangerous Delusions About Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/42c57f2ae0cdb3b0?hl=en

Thwarting the Neo-Crazies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/66c79d721fd588d4?hl=en

Trashing the IAEA Again
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f8c610f6cc9e1fda?hl=en

U.S. keeps lying about Iran again & again
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e9f480b192bd425e?hl=en

Iran's Stealthy Nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e47cc87d2b268368?hl=en

Uranium-Enrichment Myths Busted
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f7ebc6f4bed9d13a?hl=en

Iran Plays by the Rules - No Fair!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/25be300601cc8984?hl=en

Nuclear Bait and Switch
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a0dc80ca3b8e98f?hl=en

The myth of Iranian nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bf78503a661673e9?hl=en

North Korea has what Iraq didn't
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/56f613221080276e?hl=en

Iran has absolute right to enrich uranium
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a8ac2dc599976ba?hl=en

Iran is in full compliance with NPT & IAEA
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/737b74e86ba897cb?hl=en