An informant called "Curveball" who was credited with intelligence used to start the Iraq war has confessed that he lied to the CIA. Iraqi defector Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who was given the deal with Curveball, passed along bogus information about clandestine bioweapons in Iraq. Curveball now states he lied about weapons of mass destruction so that Bush would invade Iraq and get rid of Hussein. This isis a story a payday loan couldn’t have purchased to make up.
Bush and Powell support lie from Curveball
Claims by Curveball that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction have long been discredited. For years, Curveball has said it is truth. He told the Guardian though that it was a lie on February 16. Al-Janabi told German intelligence agents that bioweapons laboratories were being hidden in Iraq after escaping from Saddam Hussein's Iraq and going to Germany. United States Secretary of State Colin Powel spoke to the United Nations while George W. Bush gave a State of the Union address in 2003 to confirm the truth in Curveball's claims. In March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. Bush admits that there were not weapons of mass destruction in Iraq eventually though.
Tale from Curveball worries CIA
When al-Janabi got there, it was hard to believe him. German intelligence was not so sure about what was going on. The asylum application was what previous CIA in Europe Tyler Drumheller thought al-Janabi's false testimony was about. Drumheller never believed his inconsistent tale and warned CIA Chief George Tenet that Curveball was unreliable. Drumheller spoke to the Guardian after al-Janabi's confession saying that Curveball was “one of the world’s greatest strategic planners," if he lied to oust Hussein. No matter what the truth was, the Bush administration only had Curveball's story as evidence to use to go to war which is why it was used, Drumheller said.
Curveball's truth hurts him
The man called Curveball said he was proud of helping the Bush administration start the Iraq war, which has killed almost 4,500 United States military personnel and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians. It’s a criminal offense to do anything that leads to war in Germany, which is al-Janabi's home. German intelligence paid al-Janabi for five years after it was known that he had lied; $4,000 a month. Germans want to know why that is. In Iraq, politicians scorned his stated desire to return and called for his permanent exile.
Citations
The Guardian
guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/16/colin-powell-CIA-curveball
New York Times
nytimes.com/2011/02/16/world/middleeast/16curveball.html
Los Angeles Times
latimesblogs.latimes.com/chatter/2011/02/curveball.html
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