Source of Iraq WMD intelligence tells his story

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Source: CNN


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He was reluctant to speak on the record, initially denying he was Iraqi or that he was the defector dubbed "Curveball" by the CIA. But eight months after we first contacted him, Alwan agreed to an interview, and we met in an anonymous hotel room in a southern German town.

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Alwan brought with him to our meeting documents to prove his identity, certificates saying he has a degree in chemical engineering from Technical University in Baghdad and a student ID card from a German college. Multiple intelligence sources told CNN that the man we spoke with was, indeed, Curveball.

But Alwan told us he never told the BND that Iraq was producing weapons of mass destruction, and he said many other things said about him were false.

"There are many wrong statements made about me, and I want to declare it one by one. I have documents proving that everything said about me is false," he said.

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Norbert Juretzko, a former BND officer who is familiar with the Curveball case, now criticizes the German intelligence service for its handling of the matter. The BND wanted so badly to believe Alwan, Juretzko said, that the case officers didn't notice inconsistencies in his story.

"He was put under pressure by the BND: 'Tell us something,'" Juretzko said. "They were desperate for something. They gave him money, privileges, a visa and the like. And so this man used his imagination to get all these things."


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/10/iraq.curveball/index.html

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. And so this man used his imagination to get all these things."

Hundreds of thousands of these things are DEAD IRAQI BODIES... I hope this bastard sleeps well.

[Regret My New Name]

6. You don't think they would have simply found someone to help them?

Doesn't change the fact of what he did, of course... but it would have been someone else if they didn't use this guy.

[Newsjock]

2. 'That is Colin Powell's problem'

When I pressed him about Powell's use of his information, Alwan said in German with an Arabic accent, "That is Colin Powell's problem."

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

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4. Don't hang it all on him. That's not why we went to war.

The neocons wanted to go to war with Iraq before W. Bush was even elec . . . I mean appointed President.

[VPStoltz]

5. Leo Buscaglia

This story was in his recent book the Bush murder trial.

[Duer 157099]

7. LOL... you don't mean Vincent Bugliosi do you?

Leo Buscaglia writes a whole different kind of book doesn't he?