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Scoop.co.nz
August 23, 2008
A recently declassified draft of the
CIA's October 2002 white paper on
Iraqi WMD programs demonstrates that that paper long pre-dated the compilation of the ...
The Public Record
August 22, 2008
A recently declassified draft of the
CIA's October 2002 white paper on
Iraqi WMD programs demonstrates that that paper long pre-dated the compilation of the ...
Rutland Herald
August 22, 2008
Information from an Iraqi defector, code-named
Curveball, played a cru
CIAl role in the CIA's assessment that
Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass ...
Aljazeera.com
August 20, 2008
We now know from former
CIA officials that information on the absence of
WMD was concealed from Congress, from our senior military, and from intelligence ...
Webdiary
August 19, 2008
In case you missed it, we now know from former
CIA officials that his information on the absence of
WMD was concealed from Congress, from our senior ...
Asia Times Online
August 14, 2008
"There were many
Iraqi officials who said both publicly and privately that
Iraq had no
WMD," said the statement, "but our foreign intelligence colleagues ...
Raw Story
August 12, 2008
... the
CIA's reports on Habbush, preferring to believe the claims by a low-level informant, known as "
Curveball," that
Iraq was actively producing
WMD's. ...
Antiwar.com
August 9, 2008
That was a reference to "Curveball," the Iraqi who claimed knowledge of an Iraqi mobile bio-weapons lab program but was later found to be a professional ...
ScienceBlogs
August 6, 2008
Remember
Curveball. Remember the slam dunk of
WMD in
Iraq, not wanting the smoking
gun to be a mushroom cloud, or that we had evidence that Saddam attacked ...
Scoop.co.nz
July 21, 2008
(2) "The Secretary of Defense's statement that the
Iraqi government operated underground
WMD facilities that were not vulnerable to conventional airstrikes ...
Raw Story
July 10, 2008
Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of
terrorism and
WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed ...
Los Angeles Times
June 27, 2008
In fact, Bush was so concerned about the failure of the weapons inspectors to find
WMD that the president floated three possible ways to "provoke a ...
Los Angeles Times
June 27, 2008
It is worth noting, for example, the close parallels between Rafid Ahmed Alwan ("
Curveball") and the man
Italy's intelligence services claimed was at the ...
Commentary
June 23, 2008
It consisted of (a) regular UN inspections to track and dispose of
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's) remaining in Saddam's arsenal since the first Gulf ...
Chicago Tribune
June 21, 2008
He claimed, for example, that the son of his former boss, Basil Latif, secretly headed a
WMD procurement and smuggling scheme from
England. ...
Scoop.co.nz
June 8, 2008
Most
Americans instantly recognize only two names in connection with the
Iraq WMD "intelligence failure":
Ahmad Chalabi, the group's leader and "
Curveball", ...
Free Internet Press
June 6, 2008
The Senate report shows that the intelligence Mr. Bush had did not support those statements - or Mr.
Rumsfeld's that "every month that goes by, his
WMD ...
Dissident Voice
May 31, 2008
Middle East Times
May 30, 2008
Codenamed "
Curveball," he was distrusted by German interrogators when he told them about Saddam's
WMD capabilities. When the intelligence was passed on to ...
Washington Post
May 23, 2008
Houston Chronicle
May 17, 2008
Los Angeles Times
May 15, 2008
"This was a
WMD issue in the country adjacent to
Iraq," Fingar said of the
Iran intelligence. "We wanted to get this right." But Fingar would learn that ...
CASMII
May 13, 2008
Effective congressional oversight could have retarded the
Bush propaganda on
Iraq, especially concerning the
WMD issue and the allegations of ties between ...
Washington Post
May 1, 2008
... on
WMD and the regime and its connections to
terrorism. Can anyone say Chalabi, or
Curveball? The parallels with
Iraq are eerie indeed. ...
Asia Times Online
April 22, 2008
FOXNews
April 6, 2008
((
Curveball was the infamous Iraqi
CIA informant whose stories about
Iraqi WMD development in the leadup to the war turned out to be false. ...
Asian Tribune
March 29, 2008
"
Curveball:
Spies, Lies and the Con Man Who Caused a War" by Bob Drogin (Random House) has sealed the fate of all stories of
WMDs in
Iraq. ...
Melodika.net
March 27, 2008
It was his fabrications about
WMDs that were a key justification for
the US entering into the war. In the same edition, Jeremy Paxman will interview ...
Contactmusic.com
March 26, 2008
... BBC America announced Tuesday that it plans to air an interview Friday night with the Iraqi defector code-named "Curveball," whose false claims that he ...
Roanoke Times
March 26, 2008
"
Curveball" (the debunked informant in
Germany) was proven to be a liar and long since dismissed by German authorities as insane. ...
ShortNews.com
March 26, 2008
Rafid Ahmed Alwan AKA "
Curveball", the
engineer who claimed to have witnessed the
Iraqi WMD program and whose evidence became one of the keystones in the ...
Broadcasting & Cable
March 25, 2008
The information he provided to
CIA officials formed the crux of the agency's flawed intelligence assessment about
Iraq and
Saddam Hussein's supposed
WMD ...
Prospect Magazine
March 25, 2008
It is conventional wisdom that there were no
WMD in
Iraq. Yet there remains a dissenting minority who don't accept this. Their views may be easily dismissed ...
Philadelphia Jewish Voice
March 24, 2008
... released Robb-Silberman report on intelligence regarding
WMDs (to which Russert referred) indicated a clear connection between Chalabi and
Curveball. ...
Spiegel Online
March 22, 2008
SPIEGEL: As head of the
Iraq Survey Group, you led the effort to follow up on the claims made by '
Curveball,' the asylum seeker from
Iraq who told German ...
OCRegister
March 21, 2008
There were no major
WMD's at the time of the invasion, and as
the Pentagon just restated, no major
al-Qaida bases. We based one of our reasons to attack on ...
Daily Mail
March 19, 2008
In
the US, it emerged that the
CIA's main source of evidence, a supposed Iraqi defector codenamed
Curveball, was a faker who made up information. ...
ABC News
March 18, 2008
Albany Times Union
March 13, 2008
Failure to find
WMDs by the international inspectors, discredited information from a source who became known as "
Curveball," unsubstantiated reports of ...
Times Online
March 13, 2008
Agent
Curveball fooled
the US and
Britain, report Tim Reid and Michael Evans On February 5, 2003,
Colin Powell, one of the most respected members of ...
