Current Events
Back in late October, Joshua Marshall began tossing around hints about who might have forged documents suggesting that Iraq was trying to obtain uranium from Niger, back when the Bushites were trying to scare us with mushroom-cloud images. A few days later, he posted a follow-up underlining the notion that those documents were consciously created to help that scare campaign. Then, however, Marshall went silent on the subject . . . until today. At the end of a brief post on questionable contacts between the neocons in the Defense Department and Iran-Contra scam artist Manucher Ghorbanifar, he writes, "make a note for future reference about where that first meeting took place." That sent me checking the New York Times article he was referring to, which said, "The secret meetings were first held in Rome in December 2001." Guess what city the forged Niger uranium documents turned up in? That's right, Rome.
