From La Repubblica's November 11, 2005 article "Berlusconi's Men "Cleaned Up" Niger Uranium Dossier" [Nur al-Cubicle's
translation]:
The attention of several Democratic Senators' offices has been turned lately to the observations found in a little radical blog (www.theleftcoaster.com): Why does the Senate Report attribute a letter written by Allele Dihadj Habibou to Nassirou Sabo? Who is disinforming whom?
A couple of weeks ago eRiposte from The Left Coaster emailed me for assistance in contacting La Repubblica to share some of his research. I referred eRiposte to Nur al-Cubicle. Looks like eRiposte has connected with the Italian reporters, Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe D'Avanzo.
As I mentioned
previously, eRiposte has been meticulously comparing the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's report about the Yellowcake forgeries to the forgeries themselves.
Jumping to conclusions is my specialty so here is my take from reading eRiposte's work and the Repubblica articles:
The Italian Job is a swindle, a scam, a con. Think of a street hustler trying to sell you some stolen goods. They don't want you to see the actual product until after you've handed over the money. All you have to go on are their glowing descriptions, which turn out to not match the product.
We all know the Yellowcake docs are "obvious" forgeries. Which is why, according to my timeline from one of the Repubblica articles, stateside US intelligence doesn't get to see copies of the actual documents until October 16, 2002.
But the first report describing the contents of the Yellowcake docs is dated October 15, 2001. From the SSCI report:
Continued at the Mighty Corrente Building, where the infotainment for politics junkies is always zesty.