Britain | Iraq, Niger and uranium
Spies fall out
Britain's spies are annoyed by an American retraction
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THE relationship between Britain's and America's intelligence agencies is famously close. But British spies are not amused by the White House's public disavowal on July 7th of the president's claim in January that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium from Niger.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Spies fall out”
From the July 12th 2003 edition
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