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Washington have found themselves in a public disagreement over a
British Government claim that Iraq tried to get uranium from the
West African state of Niger.  The CIA says it was a mistake to
have included it in President George Bush's State of the Union
address, but the British Government is standing by it. BBC News
Online's Paul Reynolds tries to answer some key questions.  What
is the origin of the claim?  A memorandum came to the CIA's
notice (from the Italians, according to Time Magazine) which
appeared to document the sale or proposed sale of uranium by
Niger to Iraq in the late 1990's. Such a sale would have
suggested that Iraq was seeking to build a nuclear bomb since it
had no civilian nuclear programme.  What did the Americans do?
The CIA sent fomer US diplomat Joseph Wilson to Niger, where he
had once been based. He spoke