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How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam | World news | The Guardian

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/curveball-iraqi-fantasist-cia-saddam

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-- Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi – codenamed Curveball by the CIA – explains why he lied about Saddam's chemical weapons capability --

In a small flat in the German town of Erlangen in February 2003, an out-of-work Iraqi sat down with his wife to watch one of the world's most powerful men deliver the speech of his career on live TV.

As US secretary of state, Colin Powell gathered his notes in front of the United Nations security council, the man watching — Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, known to the west's intelligence services as "Curveball" — had more than an inkling of what was to come. He was, after all, Powell's main source, a man his German handlers had feted as a new "Deep throat" — an agent so pivotal that he could bring down a government.

As Curveball watched Powell make the US case to invade Iraq, he was hiding an admission that he has not made until now: that nearly every word he had told his interrogators from Germany's secret service, the BND, was a lie.

Everything he had said about the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons programme was a flight of fantasy - one that, he now claims was aimed at ousting the Iraqi dictator. Janabi, a chemical engineering graduate who had worked in the Iraqi industry, says he looked on in shock as Powell's presentation revealed that the Bush administration's hawkish decisionmakers had swallowed the lot. Something else left him even more amazed; until that point he had not met a US official, let alone been interviewed by one.

"I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime," he told the Guardian in a series of interviews carried out in his native Arabic and German. "I and my sons are proud of that, and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy."
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11 comments // How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam | World news | The Guardian

  • reddjoiowa
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      reddjoiowa  

    • How many of us feared that war In Iraq, would some day come back and "beat us in the backside!!!! Bush and his oil-cronies led us down the Primrose lane, for sure!!!
      THANKS FOR THIS GREAT ARTICLE!!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • ourvoice
  • KSirys
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      KSirys  

    • and this dumbass is "proud"??? i'm sorry, but we lost over 32,000 people because of this bullshit war!

      I'm sorry, but he should be shot!

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  

    • such a strange time we lie in.ya know once upon a time you could watch a movie with full assurance that the crazy shit that was happening was all just hollywood.now that we think that way, it turns out the green zone was more fact than fiction.

      at the same time our news has become more fiction than fact.we are so fucking doomed.

    • 1 year ago
  • Robotic091
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      Robotic091  

    • thousands of american and iraqi lives were lost because of that @hole?! he is lucky he does not live the US there are many families that would confront him.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • Robotic091:

      hey, a bazillion people lie to us in the hopes of getting us to serve thier needs.this guy is not any worse than any other.our leader on the other hand who was more interested in a "shoot first ask questions later" holds the blame.as it was ultimately his call.

    • 1 year ago
  • GENERALNATTY
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      GENERALNATTY  

    • Duped? Saddam Hussein attempted to assassinate a certain Texan's father , nobody important you probably never ever heard of him before George W Bush, he was the leader of the free world for a while there , President of the united states or whatever the kids call it these days.

      Anyway he didn't take too kindly to Saddam trying to take his daddy from him so he set a plan in motion once opportunity presented itself , there was only one thing missing he needed a reason to send a army into Iraq.

      In comes Curveball to strike out the critics and get the plan in motion.

      So finally ladies and gentlemen the fact is that as much as this guy would like to act as if he used the U.S government as pawn in his grand scheme , he was the pawn the fact that the situation was mutually beneficial was just happenstance , it did not matter what his goals was as long as he could give the Texan what he needed.

    • 1 year ago
  • Schnookums
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      Schnookums  

    • I seem to remember that there was voluminous evidence at the time that this manipulator was just that.......the corporate controlled media, however, decided that it wasn't an important point of view, so relatively few people knew enough about it to consider the fraud.

    • 1 year ago
  • Earthwalker
  • Seauvan
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      Seauvan  

    • AMERICAN MILITARY LIVES WERE WASTED IN PART BECAUSE OF THIS ASSHOLE?! I AM ABSOLUTELY F*CKING LIVID ABOUT THIS SH*THEAD LYING! As a former member of the American military, I want this man AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY TORTURED TO DEATH as horribly as is possible! Nevermind a trial! It is bad enough we generate our own bad intel and waste American lives, now we have a defector that thinks the deaths of thousands of American sons, daughters, husbands and wives were inconsequential compared to an opportunity he saw? I don't want justice, I WANT REVENGE!

    • 1 year ago
  • Progresshiv
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