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"Italy provided U.S. with faulty uranium intelligence," reports Knight Ridder's Jonathan Landay:
On the question of the US apparently ending its investigation into the forgeries this past summer, Sen. Jay Rockefeller is cited by the paper as saying, "Until I receive additional information about the thoroughness of the investigation, I cannot make a judgment on the accuracy of the conclusions." How about a Senate fact finding trip to Italy? Update: Sen. Kucinich has requested an investigation of the investigation.Contrary to Italian government denials, a powerful Italian military intelligence agency passed bogus allegations to the United States of an Iraqi effort to buy uranium ore from the African nation of Niger for a nuclear bomb program, U.S. officials said Friday. ...
Four U.S. officials said the Italian military intelligence agency known as SISMI passed three reports to the CIA station in Rome between October 2001 and March 2002 outlining an alleged deal for Iraq to buy uranium ore, known as yellowcake, from Niger. Yellowcake is refined into the uranium fuel that powers nuclear weapons. ...
One of the reports passed by SISMI contained language that turned out to have been lifted verbatim from crudely forged documents that outlined the purported uranium-ore deal, the U.S. officials said.
"SISMI was involved in this; there is no doubt," said a U.S. intelligence official who's closely followed the matter...