Curveball Revealed! Green cards for War!

It was Colin Powell’s darkest hour, but he would have went to war with Iraq without briefing the UN anyway. (Woodward’s book “Plan of Attack” tells us that) ..Bush used this fraud who wanted a green-card in Germany to fool the American people and bring the country into a war with Iraq. 60 Minutes did a fine piece on him Sunday night that should be seen so we will be reminded that “intelligence” can always be manipulated—even after it’s debunked by our own intelligence department.

Rafid Ahmed Alwan defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program. Alwan’s allegations were subsequently shown to be false by the Iraq Survey Group’s final report published in 2004.

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Faulty Intel Source "Curve Ball" Revealed
60 Minutes: Iraqi's Fabricated Story Of Biological Weapons Aided U.S. Arguments For Invasion

[(CBS) Did Saddam Hussein have weapons of mass destruction? No, he did not. We've known that for some time now. So where did the intelligence come from that he was building up his arsenal? Fantastically, the most compelling part came from one obscure Iraqi defector who came in and out of history like a comet. His code name, ironically, was "Curve Ball" and his information became the pillar of the case Colin Powell made to the United Nations before the war. Who is Curve Ball and how did he fool the world's elite intelligence agencies?

60 Minutes spent two years, and traveled to nine countries, trying to solve the mystery. We talked to intelligence sources, to people who knew Curve Ball and to people who worked with him. As correspondent Bob Simon reports, Curve Ball's real name has never been made public, nor has any video of him, until now......



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