http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-10-095835.asp?reg=MIDEASTVIENNA, July 10 — A diplomat close to the U.N's nuclear watchdog said on Thursday Britain has never provided evidence to back up Prime Minister Tony Blair's continued insistence that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa.
Blair has been accused of trying to boost support for the war in Iraq by exaggerating the threat it posed to the world and of using forged documents to back his charge that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was trying to build nuclear weapons.
Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush both accused Iraq of having tried to buy uranium from Africa as part of a campaign to show that Iraq was an imminent threat to world stability.
''The U.N. followed up with Britain to obtain additional evidence they said they had, backing allegations Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa,'' a diplomat familiar with the International Atomic Energy Agency told Reuters. ''It was never provided.''
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