Iraq - Niger Docs

* EXCLUSIVE: Two Explosive Books Tell the Inside Story of the Forged
Iraq-Niger Docs That Helped Build the Case for War *

In his January 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush declared the
infamous sixteen words: ³The British Government has learned that Saddam
Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.² The
claim was central to the administration¹s claims that Saddam Hussein was
seeking weapons of mass destruction and served as a basis for launching the
Iraq invasion less than two months later. Bush¹s declaration was based on an
intelligence document that provided evidence about Iraq¹s purchase of
uranium from the African country of Niger. But there was one problem: the
document was a fake. In a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive, we speak with
the authors of two explosive new books. Carlo Bonini is the Italian reporter
who broke the Niger story. His new book is called Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror. Peter Eisner is a veteran foreign
correspondent and is currently an editor at the Washington Post. His new
book is The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq.

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