http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17130644%255E954,00.htmlAN aide to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and an intelligence director were to appear before a parliamentary commission last night to respond to allegations that Italy knowingly gave the US and Britain forged documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium in Africa.
Cabinet Undersecretary Gianni Letta and Nicolo Pollari, the director of Italy's SISMI intelligence agency, were due to be questioned by members of a parliamentary commission overseeing secret services, commission spokeswoman Micaela Panella said.
Mr Pollari requested the hearing after the allegations emerged in a newspaper last week.
The Rome daily La Repubblica reported that the Government gave the US and Britain documents known to be forged that detailed a purported Iraqi deal to buy 500 tonnes of uranium concentrate from Niger. The uranium ore can be used to produce nuclear weapons.
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