Iraqi defector 'Curveball' Janabi denies WMD claims
nmollo Wed, 02/16/2011 - 8:46am
The BBC News Website reports....
Iraqi defector 'Curveball' Janabi denies WMD claims
An Iraqi defector whose claims Saddam Hussein had biological weapons helped justify the 2003 invasion has said he lied to bring the ex-leader down.
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Colin Powell demands answers over false Iraq intel: reports
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Colin Powell demands answers over false Iraq intel: reports
By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, February 17th, 2011 -- 1:33 am
LONDON — Ex-secretary of state Colin Powell called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain how he was given unreliable information which proved key to the US case for invading Iraq, the Guardian reported Wednesday.
Powell's landmark speech to the United Nations on February 5, 2003, cited intelligence about Iraq leader Saddam Hussein's bioweapons programme gained from a defector, codenamed Curveball.
But he has now admitted that he lied to topple the dictator, in an interview with the Guardian.
"It has been known for several years that the source called Curveball was totally unreliable," Powell told the British newspaper.
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