Nov. 20, 2001 – The French, who lead the business-government consortium controlling Niger’s uranium exports, say there is “no possibility” that any yellowcake (unprocessed uranium) from Niger was diverted to Iraq.

 
This is the point, about a month after the first intelligence report on the purported Iraq-Niger uranium deal, at which the Niger uranium story should have been laid definitively to rest. Indications are that CIA actually knows very early that the documents ...   more »