16 February 2011 - Michael White: Another liar surfaces in the Iraqi tragedy and, yet again, he doesn't turn out to be Tony Blair
Oh dear, another liar surfaces in the Iraqi tragedy and, yet again, he doesn't turn out to be Tony Blair. If you haven't yet read the Guardian's sensational disclosure that the Iraqi intelligence source known as Curveball deliberately lied you should read it right away.
Who says he lied? He does. His name is Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi and he's a chemical engineer now living with his family in Germany in the industrial town of Karlsruhe with German citizenship but no work, no €3,000-a-month stipend from German intelligence any more either.
What did he lie about? Saddam Hussein's secret biological weapons programme. Why did he do it? "I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime. I and my sons are proud of that and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy," Janabi explains. {continued}
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Curveball's confession:
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