Secret source of phony Iraq intel outed

Secret source of phony Iraq intel outed

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"Curveball" is Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who did study chemical engineering but made poor grades and never managed a biological weapons facility, according to CBS' "60 Minutes," which will broadcast on Sunday a report describing how Alwan became a secret intelligence source.

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It looks like the man; Rafid Ahmed Alwan whose information was used to start the Iraq war was nothing more than help on his asylum claim in Germany. It is a sad state of affairs, when information that's taken from a source isn't correctly checked. Even worse is the amount of deaths on the hands of this man, a man whose grades in Iraq were below par and was one of the many sources the Bush Administration used to declare war.

Nothing more than another embarrassment to the U.S.A. and it's about time the Bush Administration admits they were wrong.

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Although German intelligence officials warned the CIA that Curveball's claims of mobile bioweapons labs were unreliable, and U.N. inspectors determined before the war began in 2003 that parts of his story were false, the Bush administration continued to promote the existence of such mobile labs for months after the invasion, until it was widely accepted that they could not be found.

So the Bush Administration was told that this guy was an unreliable source and the UN weapons inspectors had even proven that his claims were false, but they still sold us the song and dance about bioweapons labs.

Why is nobody being held accountable for this?

Sounds like somebody is trying to pass the buck to me, the phoney intelligence was MANDATED by Bush and cronies, not given to them. Rafid Ahmed Alwan wasn't the one that pushed Richard Clarke into a closet and told him to find a way to connect Iraq to 9-11, and Rafid Ahmed Alwan wasn't the feller that gave Rummy a vial of fake Antrhax to wave around at the UN either. I have no doubt taht alot of folks will swallow this bait and switch, but this war was planned long in advance, and Rafid Ahmed Alwan had little to do with it.

Originally posted by twitchy
Sounds like somebody is trying to pass the buck to me, the phoney intelligence was MANDATED by Bush and cronies, not given to them. Rafid Ahmed Alwan wasn't the one that pushed Richard Clarke into a closet and told him to find a way to connect Iraq to 9-11, and Rafid Ahmed Alwan wasn't the feller that gave Rummy a vial of fake Antrhax to wave around at the UN either. I have no doubt taht alot of folks will swallow this bait and switch, but this war was planned long in advance, and Rafid Ahmed Alwan had little to do with it.

To be fair, the man played a key part in it.

Bush Administration desire to go to war with Iraq. They need "evidence" that Saddam is in breach of the United Nations Resolution. This man - Rafid Ahmed Alwan - claimed to be able to give that proof. He is just as bad as those who knew it was fake, he might have been doing things for the right reasons - his own safety - but due to his actions many people are dead.

If the Bush Administration had no outside groups giving them evidence or information it would have been so much harder to fool members of the public.

Well this proves that the Bush admin used the information that suited them when it came to building a case for war in Iraq and or that Bush is a extremely naive and just a figure head in his own admin. Rumsfeld and Cheney were the real players and power brokers Cheney must have been happy when Rumsfeld was fired because he could consolidate his control of the Bush admin.

I bet that we wont hear boo out of the those who labelled those opposed the war as traitors and anti American.

[edit on 2-11-2007 by xpert11]