scooterbug44
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Lovely.
Apparently the Germans vetted the guy's story back in 2000 and thought he was lying - but we still listened to him.
'Curveball': I lied about Iraq WMD - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com
"LONDON ? An Iraqi defector who went by the codename ?Curveball? has publicly admitted for the first time that he made up stories about mobile bioweapons trucks and secret factories to try to bring down Saddam Hussein?s regime.
"I had a problem with the Saddam regime," Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who fled Iraq in 1995, told The Guardian newspaper. "I wanted to get rid of him and now I had this chance."
As it turned out, Powell was not told that one of the sources for the information ? ?Curveball" ? had been flagged by the Defense Intelligence Agency as suspect and untrustworthy.
Tyler Drumheller, the former head of the CIA in Europe, said Curveball's admission made him feel better about himself.
Drumheller, who says he warned his superiors at the CIA before the 2003 invasion that Curveball might be a liar, said the confession would be a final wake-up call for those who continue to insist there had been weapons of mass destruction.
"The interesting part for me is that he has recanted what he said, which is fascinating in the sense that I think there are still a number of people who still thought there was something in that. Even now," Drumheller told the Guardian."
Apparently the Germans vetted the guy's story back in 2000 and thought he was lying - but we still listened to him.
'Curveball': I lied about Iraq WMD - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com
"LONDON ? An Iraqi defector who went by the codename ?Curveball? has publicly admitted for the first time that he made up stories about mobile bioweapons trucks and secret factories to try to bring down Saddam Hussein?s regime.
"I had a problem with the Saddam regime," Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who fled Iraq in 1995, told The Guardian newspaper. "I wanted to get rid of him and now I had this chance."
As it turned out, Powell was not told that one of the sources for the information ? ?Curveball" ? had been flagged by the Defense Intelligence Agency as suspect and untrustworthy.
Tyler Drumheller, the former head of the CIA in Europe, said Curveball's admission made him feel better about himself.
Drumheller, who says he warned his superiors at the CIA before the 2003 invasion that Curveball might be a liar, said the confession would be a final wake-up call for those who continue to insist there had been weapons of mass destruction.
"The interesting part for me is that he has recanted what he said, which is fascinating in the sense that I think there are still a number of people who still thought there was something in that. Even now," Drumheller told the Guardian."
