Current Events
The US and UK start a major roll-out on the nuclear claims. But the response is generally disappointing. There’s major push-back from the IAEA and, secretly in the US, from the CIA. It was precisely at this moment (in the last days of September and the first of October) that the advocates of the Niger story were most in need of some new evidence. And it was precisely at this moment when the new evidence --- at first seemingly incontrovertible --- popped up in Rome. And the day after the reporter gets the docs the Editor-in-Chief of her magazine instructs her to take them to the American Embassy. And remember too that it wasn’t publicly known at the time that Niger was the country in question.
