In an interview with author Craig Unger in October 2006, Colonel Larry Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, expressed his doubts on reports that documented the sale of 500 tons of yellowcake uranium per year from Niger to Iraq. ” ‘The idea that you could get that much yellowcake out of Niger without the French knowing, that you could have a train big enough to carry it, much less a ship, is absurd.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 208