Editing Niger uranium forgeries (section)

{{Short description|Forged documents in the Iraq disarmament crisis}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Chronological|reason=A number of sections are place out of order by date and it is somewhat confusing when attempting to sort them.  The first 'doubt' section, "Initial doubts", lacks a direct date, but used the words " Days before the Iraq invasion" to place it around 2003.  The second section, "US doubts", lists a date of February 2002 despite being later down the page than the "Initial doubts" section and the section directly before it, "European and French intelligence reports" using the date of 28 June 2004.  The third, "CIA doubts" uses a date of October 2002 despite being after "Initial doubts" and "European and French intelligence reports".  The fourth, "More doubts" is dated January 2006 while the section that follows it, "Statements by Wilson" is dated July 2003".|date=February 2024}}
[[File:Niger w2 locator.svg|thumb|Location of [[Niger]] in Africa]]
The '''Niger uranium forgeries''' were forged documents initially released in 2001 by [[SISMI]] (the former military intelligence agency of Italy), which seem to depict an attempt made by [[Saddam Hussein]] in [[Iraq]] to purchase [[yellowcake uranium]] powder from [[Niger]] during the [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]. On the basis of these documents and other indicators, the governments of the [[Federal government of the United States|United States]] and the [[Government of the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] asserted that Iraq violated [[United Nations]] [[sanctions against Iraq]] by attempting to procure nuclear material for the purpose of creating [[weapons of mass destruction]].