Exposed: The lie that led us into Iraq
The Iraqi defector who claimed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction has finally confessed that he made the whole thing up. An instant guide
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 16, 2011, AT 10:12 AM
Eight years after then–Secretary of State Colin Powell used harrowing stories of Saddam Hussein's alleged biological and chemical weapons programs to make the Bush administration's case for invading Iraq, the man who supplied intel agents with those stories admits he made them up. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, known to U.S. and other Western spy agencies as 'Curveball,' tells The Guardian that he 'fabricated' the whole WMD tale in the hopes of bringing Hussein down. He certainly helped, but what's his real story?"
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