Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Thats A Spicy Meatball

The Italian publication La Repubblica has blown the lid off of the Niger forged documents scandal. Yesterday, in part two of a series, the paper laid the claim the the documents were stove piped to the White House Office of Special Planning for the Iraq war during a meeting between Steven Hadley and Nicolo Pollari, the head of the Italian intelligence service SISMI.

Today the paper writes that the infamous aluminum tubes supposedly to be used to centrifuge uranium were in fact a component of the Italian 81mm Medusa missile system. That means the Italians had to know exactly what they were, they probably sold them to Iraq.

Pollari has asked the parliamentary commission overseeing secret services to interview him in light of these allegations. The Italian government has issued a denial over the Niger documents today.

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