Elisabetta Burba is a reporter for the Italian current affairs weekly Panorama. She said that she was given documents by a security analyst purportedly showing that Iraq wanted to buy uranium from Niger. She was unable to confirm that the documents were authentic, so she did not publish the story, and turned the documents over to officials at the American embassy in Italy. The documents turned out to be forgeries. George W. Bush and Tony Blair never-the-less referred to the documents as they sought to convince the world that Iraq was attempting to obtain weapons of mass destruction.