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Play it again, scam ...
African uranium redux. The neo-cons are re-using their Iraq War playbook.
In this case it is Iran, not Iraq, supposedly purchasing uranium from Africa,
not from Niger, but from Congo.
On Aug. 6, 2006, Rupert Murdoch's main British mouthpiece, The Sunday
Times, reported that "Iran is seeking to import large consignments of
uranium from Africa." It was a similar utterance, contained in a bogus 16-word
claim by George W. Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address that was used, in
part, to justify America's and Britain's disastrous invasion and occupation of
Iraq. Now, the same canard is being used to justify a U.S. attack on Iran.
The Sunday Times chief source for its story was an unnamed Tanzanian
customs official who claimed that Tanzanian customs intercepted in October 2005
an air shipment of uranium from near Lubumbashi in Congo's Katanga to Mwanza in
Tanzania. The alleged uranium shipments from Congo to Iran were said to have
started in 2002 and consisted of several alleged shipments. The alleged source
of the uranium, the Shinkolobwe mine in Katanga, was also the source for the
uranium used in the U.S, atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The only problem with the Sunday Times story is that the Shinkolobwe
mine is no longer in operation. "The Congo mine has been closed for decades,"
according to a very knowledgeable U.S. government who has dealt extensively with
African uranium production. Congo's government claims the ore concentrator for
Shinkolobwe has been shut down since 1961 and, therefore, cannot be concentrated
into refined yellowcake uranium.
Resource-rich Congo, which is just emerging from a genocidal civil war
encouraged by U.S., British, and Israeli elements using their surrogates in
Rwanda, Uganda, and eastern Congo, is a lucrative target for the Bush
administration and its criminal accomplices. Conveniently for the neo-cons, the
story about Congolese uranium shipments to Iran is said to have involved
trans-shipment points in Sudan and Syria and middlemen in Lebanon, all three
countries targets of the Project for the New American Century operatives in
Washington, London, and Jerusalem/Tel Aviv. Currently, the CIA, under the regime
of General Michael Hayden, is cooking the intelligence to prove the
Congolese-Tanzanian-Sudanese-Syrian-Iranian uranium smuggling connections. Just
for good measure, the neo-cons are suggesting that Zimbabwe, a major target of
the Bush administration, and Zambia, were also involved in the alleged elaborate
uranium smuggling scheme. President George W. Bush is reported to have ordered
Hayden and National Intelligence Director John Negroponte to do everything
possible to prove a uranium connection between Iran and Congo.
Africa, which is rife with false "official looking" documents, such as those
Nigerien documents laundered through the Silvio Berlusconi-Italian
Fascist-Michael Ledeen network to "prove" that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy
yellowcake uranium from Niger, is a favorite pace for the neo-cons to cook up
phony intelligence and false flags. Some of the phony intelligence being used to
prove a Congolese-Iranian uranium link is originating with political enemies of
President Joseph Kabila, who is the reported winner of the recent UN-supervised
presidential election. His two major opponents, both U.S. and Israeli-backed
guerrilla leaders, are the likely sources of the bogus uranium stories. Belgian
intelligence, which has extensive sources in Kinshasa and throughout Congo, have
scoffed at the reports of the alleged uranium sales. They have evaluated the
uranium reports with a confidence level of "not serious," according to the
Belgian magazine Trends. The Belgian magazine also reports that an
official of the American embassy in Kinshasa visited the Shinkolobwe mine on
August 9 and "found nothing irregular." The International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) in Vienna has also derided the notion of Congolese uranium sales to
Iran.
Trends also discovered some proof that official Congolese Gécamines (the Congolese state mining company)
uranium sales records from 1966 to 1968 were tampered with to make it look like
there were recent sales of uranium from Katanga to Iran. The magazine states,
"The serial numbers of the uranium shipments referred to in the exchange of
letters between Wieland GmbH [of Germany] and Saman Cheshemen [mining company]
of Iran, could possibly been taken from official uranium sales by the Congolese
state-owned company Gécamines of existing reserves from 1966 and 1968 from
Shinkolobwe. Have those previous serial numbers been used to give this smuggling
operation an appearance of truthfulness? The incredible amount of 2 billion
dollars is explained by some as forming part of a money laundering operation."
As every user of e-mail is aware, Africa is the source for all kinds of money
laundering schemes and frauds. It would seem that the neo-cons are the only
people in the world not aware of these schemes but are, nevertheless, trying to
convince professional intelligence agencies that the money laundering operations
and phony intelligence reports are clues in proving a "Congo sells uranium to
Iran" scheme.
A U.S. intelligence source told WMR two months ago that the Kabila government
would be implicated by the neo-cons in a false uranium smuggling operation with
Iran in an effort to justify both an attack on Iran and a military overthrow of
Kabila by pro-U.S./Israeli elements in Congo. Kabila has been the target of
several attempted coups staged in neighboring countries by mercenaries in the
pay of U.S. and British intelligence. It now appears that the forecast of a
phony Congolese link to uranium sales, which also mentioned Tanzanian
involvement, was correct. It is also very apparent that the neo-cons are
becoming incredibly predictable in their machinations. As with Niger and the
bogus yellowcake sales to Iraq, we now have forged Congolese documents, phony
news stories emanating from the always-suspect Murdoch News Corp. falsehood
factory, and intelligence agencies calling the bluff of the neo-cons.
Source: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
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