Germans accuse US over Iraq weapons claim

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1184172,00.html

An Iraqi defector nicknamed Curveball who wrongly claimed that Saddam Hussein had mobile chemical weapons factories was last night at the centre of a bitter row between the CIA and Germany's intelligence agency.

German officials said that they had warned American colleagues well before the Iraq war that Curveball's information was not credible - but the warning was ignored.

It was the Iraqi defector's testimony that led the Bush administration to claim that Saddam had built a fleet of trucks and railway wagons to produce anthrax and other deadly germs.

In his presentation to the UN security council in February last year, the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, explicitly used Curveball's now discredited claims as justification for war. The Iraqis were assembling "mobile production facilities for biological agents", Mr Powell said, adding that his information came from "a solid source".

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[mmm]

1. Curveball

Upon this Curveball I build my war.
Beginning to look like the only 'solid source' Bush had was the
testimony of a defector named... Curveball.

[GreenGreenLimaBean]

2. these guys don't get irony.

bush* probably thought it was cool to use info from someone named
curveball since he's the baseball cheerleader-in-chief.

[pinto]

3. Chalabi's brother, who's now in charge of "rebuilding"

Iraq's legal system...

[NNN0LHI]

4. kick

[bemildred]

5. Spooks getting worked up about lies is way funny.

And these retards are protecting US?