The Telegraph (via Captain's Quarters) is reporting that Rocco Martino, the man who has been pinpointed as having "procured and circulated" fake documents indicating Iraqi attempts to purchase Nigerian yellowcake uranium, was doing so in the employ of - who else? - France:
His admission to investigating magistrates in Rome on Friday apparently confirms suggestions that - by commissioning "Giacomo" to procure and circulate documents - France was responsible for some of the information later used by Britain and the United States to promote the case for war with Iraq.
Italian diplomats have claimed that, by disseminating bogus documents stating that Iraq was trying to buy low-grade "yellowcake" uranium from Niger, France was trying to "set up" Britain and America in the hope that when the mistake was revealed it would undermine the case for war, which it wanted to prevent.
Hmm. When Valerie Plame sent a memo to a deputy chief in the CIA's Directorate of Operations recommending her husband (Joseph Wilson) for the trip to Niger, she made a point of mentioning that her husband had "lots of French contacts." Oops.
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