Information about a secret biological weapons program provided by Iraqi defector nicknamed Curveball one had been used by the U.S. to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The Guardian of Tuesday, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi acknowledges for the first time he lied to obtain the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
"I had the chance to make something to overthrow the regime," said Mr. al-Janabi British newspaper. "Me and my son are very proud and we are proud to have been the reason to give Iraq the benefit of democracy." "Believe me, there was no other way to establish freedom in Iraq. There were no other options," he said.
At the time, the defector nicknamed Curveball by officials of U.S. intelligence and German, had told the BND, the German secret service, that Iraq possessed biological weapons trucks and that Baghdad had built plants weapons smuggling. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi is a chemical engineer who had been approached by the BND in 2000 after fleeing Iraq in 1995.
The German intelligence service, later, had confused Mr. al-Janabi by putting before them a report of its former head of the commission of defense industries in Iraq, a Bassil Latif, saying there had no truck with biological weapons, nor secret factories. The defector, according to The Guardian, admitted then that his lie.
"OK, [when Latif Bassil said] that no truck is [that there is not]" Could he told the BND. However, he said, the security services had continued to trust him. But in 2002, they reportedly told him that his pregnant wife would not be permitted to join Germany if he ceased to cooperate. According to British newspaper, Mr.
al-Janabi has denied he lied to get asylum in Germany and affrimé that her only wish was to end Saddam Hussein. In this case, in November 2005, the Los Angeles Times reported that the information on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction provided before the 2003 war with Curveball had been judged unreliable by the German.
"Five senior German intelligence services told the Times that they warned [their U.S. counterparts] that this source, an Iraqi dissident nicknamed Curveball, never claimed to produce biological weapons, and had never seen anyone produce, "wrote the Los Angeles Times. "The senior official responsible for the case Curveball told he had been shocked at hearing [former Secretary of State Colin Powell] quote [February 2003] Curveball's claims as a justification for war." We were under shock ', the official said.
"Mein Gott!" We had always told them it was not proven! It was not solid intelligence ", reported the Daily Californian. The newspaper explained that the last dissident now living at the expense of German intelligence under an assumed name in Germany, where he requested political asylum.
"The motive of Curveball, according to CIA officials, it was not to provoke a war, but to get a German visa," added the Los Angeles Times. 
"I had the chance to make something to overthrow the regime," said Mr. al-Janabi British newspaper. "Me and my son are very proud and we are proud to have been the reason to give Iraq the benefit of democracy." "Believe me, there was no other way to establish freedom in Iraq. There were no other options," he said.
At the time, the defector nicknamed Curveball by officials of U.S. intelligence and German, had told the BND, the German secret service, that Iraq possessed biological weapons trucks and that Baghdad had built plants weapons smuggling. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi is a chemical engineer who had been approached by the BND in 2000 after fleeing Iraq in 1995.
The German intelligence service, later, had confused Mr. al-Janabi by putting before them a report of its former head of the commission of defense industries in Iraq, a Bassil Latif, saying there had no truck with biological weapons, nor secret factories. The defector, according to The Guardian, admitted then that his lie.
"OK, [when Latif Bassil said] that no truck is [that there is not]" Could he told the BND. However, he said, the security services had continued to trust him. But in 2002, they reportedly told him that his pregnant wife would not be permitted to join Germany if he ceased to cooperate. According to British newspaper, Mr.
al-Janabi has denied he lied to get asylum in Germany and affrimé that her only wish was to end Saddam Hussein. In this case, in November 2005, the Los Angeles Times reported that the information on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction provided before the 2003 war with Curveball had been judged unreliable by the German.
"Five senior German intelligence services told the Times that they warned [their U.S. counterparts] that this source, an Iraqi dissident nicknamed Curveball, never claimed to produce biological weapons, and had never seen anyone produce, "wrote the Los Angeles Times. "The senior official responsible for the case Curveball told he had been shocked at hearing [former Secretary of State Colin Powell] quote [February 2003] Curveball's claims as a justification for war." We were under shock ', the official said.
"Mein Gott!" We had always told them it was not proven! It was not solid intelligence ", reported the Daily Californian. The newspaper explained that the last dissident now living at the expense of German intelligence under an assumed name in Germany, where he requested political asylum.
"The motive of Curveball, according to CIA officials, it was not to provoke a war, but to get a German visa," added the Los Angeles Times.
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