Former U.S. secretary of state had told the UN that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
AFP
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell asked the CIA and the Pentagon to explain why they had contacted him false information about Iraq that had been provided by a defector dubbed "Curveball" , The Guardian reported Thursday . Colin Powell had said, February 5, 2003, in an important speech to the UN, be aware of the presence of biological weapons in Iraq, based on information provided by "Curveball."
"The question should be asked of the CIA and the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) before this false information (the existence of biological weapons) are included in the report sent to Congress, quoted in the speech State of the Union (George W. Bush), and in my speech at the UN on 5 February (2003), "he told the Guardian Colin Powell, responding to interview the defector, the published shall, within the same newspaper.
The defector, alias Ahmed Alwan Rafid al-Janabi, said he lied about the presence of such weapons in Iraq. "We knew for years that the source named Curveball was completely unreliable ", said former U.S. Secretary of State to British newspaper. In his speech to the UN, Colin Powell had presented al-Janabi as a" chemical engineer " . Information provided by al-Janabi had been used by the United States to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The information provided by al-Janabi had yet been considered unreliable by the German secret service, the BND, who had approached the defector in 2000.
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