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In the push for the 2003 [[2003 invasion of Iraq|war with Iraq]], [[Bush administration]] officials, including President [[George W. Bush]] himself in his [[State of the Union 2003]] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/bushtext_012803.html speech], [[Bush's 16 words|cited evidence]] that [[Saddam Hussein]] had attempted to buy 500 tons of [[yellowcake uranium]] from the African nation of [[Niger]].
However, [[Mohamed ElBaradei]] of the [[United Nations]] [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] (IAEA) looked at the evidence and stated that it was obviously forged, even though and a year earlier the [[CIA]] found the evidence to be unreliable. [http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2444571][http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2003/13/we_338_01.html]
==Events==
===Articles & Commentary===
===Web Series===
*Jack Shafer, "Follow That Story: The Nuclear Whodunit," ''Slate'':
:[http://slate.msn.com/id/2080166/ Part 1: "Who bamboozled the United States?"], March 14, 2003.
:[http://slate.msn.com/id/2080238/ Part 2: "Who forged the documents that bamboozled the U.S.?"], March 17, 2003.
:[http://slate.msn.com/id/2080583/ "CIA analysts do a CYA, telling the press, Don't blame the phony nuke docs on us!"], March 23, 2003.
:[http://slate.msn.com/id/2085616 Part 4: "Who forged the uranium documents that bamboozled the U.S.? A chronology,"] July 14, 2003.
====2003====
*Seymour M. Hersch, [http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?030331fa_fact1 "Who Lied to Whom? Why did the Administration endorse a forgery about Iraq's nuclear program?"], ''The New Yorker'' Online, Posted March 24, 2003.
*Joseph C. Wilson IV, [http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0706-02.htm "What I Didn't Find in Africa,"] ''New York Times'', July 6, 2003.
*[[Walter Pincus]] and Mike Allen, [http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines03/0713-02.htm "CIA Got Uranium Reference Cut in Oct. Why Bush Cited It In Jan. Is Unclear,"] ''Washington Post'', July 13, 2003; posted on ''Common Dreams'' website.