Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball's WMD lies | World news | The Guardian

17.2.11

Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball's WMD lies | World news | The Guardian: "Responding to the Guardian's revelation that the source, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi or 'Curveball' as his US and German handlers called him, admitted fabricating evidence of Iraq's secret biological weapons programme, Powell said that questions should be put to the US agencies involved in compiling the case for war. In particular he singled out the CIA and the Defence Intelligence Agency – the Pentagon's military intelligence arm. Janabi, an Iraqi defector, was used as the primary source by the Bush administration to justify invading Iraq in March 2003. Doubts about his credibility circulated before the war and have been confirmed by his admission this week that he lied."

More from the Guardian UK:

• 15 Feb 2011-Curveball admissions vindicate suspicions of CIA's former Europe chief
• 16 Feb 2011-Curveball deserves permanent exile for WMD lies, say Iraq politicians
• 16 Feb 2011-Curveball's admission 'raises questions about CIA'
• 15 Feb 2011-Curveball's lies – and the consequences

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