Niger has four exports: uranium ore, livestock products, cowpeas, and onions. Wilson reported that the Prime Minister had been approached by an Iraqi group interested in secret negotiations for an export deal, and the PM didn’t think that the Iraqis wanted to secretly buy onions. Wilson reported back that Niger believed that the Iraqis had attempted to make a uranium purchase, but had refused their advances. This came out years ago in an investigative report by the Senate Intelligence Committee, a report that the AP’s myriad of reporters still has managed to miss for three years.
