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| + | A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview on 2 April 2012. | ||
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| + | "Curveball", the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi's lies used to justify the Iraq war. | ||
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| + | Al-Janabi tries to defend his actions: | ||
| + | :"My main purpose was to topple the tyrant in Iraq because the longer this dictator remains in power, the more the Iraqi people will suffer from this regime's oppression."<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/man-whose-wmd-lies-led-to-100000-deaths-confesses-all-7606236.html "Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all"]</ref> | ||
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==Official Narrative== | ==Official Narrative== | ||
[[Wikipedia]] states that "a weapon of mass destruction (WMD or WoMD) is a nuclear, radiological, biological, chemical or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to human-made structures (e.g. buildings), natural structures (e.g. mountains), or the biosphere." | [[Wikipedia]] states that "a weapon of mass destruction (WMD or WoMD) is a nuclear, radiological, biological, chemical or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to human-made structures (e.g. buildings), natural structures (e.g. mountains), or the biosphere." | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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| Interest of | • Wouter Basson • Amy Baker Benjamin • Ian Butterfield • Combating Terrorism Center • Dale E. Klein • Herbert Levine • National Counterproliferation Center • Nuclear Threat Initiative |
A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview on 2 April 2012.
"Curveball", the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi's lies used to justify the Iraq war.
Al-Janabi tries to defend his actions:
- "My main purpose was to topple the tyrant in Iraq because the longer this dictator remains in power, the more the Iraqi people will suffer from this regime's oppression."[1]
Contents
Official Narrative
Wikipedia states that "a weapon of mass destruction (WMD or WoMD) is a nuclear, radiological, biological, chemical or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to human-made structures (e.g. buildings), natural structures (e.g. mountains), or the biosphere."
Problems
US law is so broad that a "weapon of mass destruction" may be anything that explodes, leading political scientist and terrorism-fear skeptic John Mueller to comment that "As I understand it, not only is a grenade a weapon of mass destruction, but so is a maliciously-designed child's rocket even if it doesn't have a warhead."[2]
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| Biological weapon | A "bioterrorist" could use Biological weapons. Researched in Level 4 Bioweapons labs. |
| Chemical weapon | |
| Drone | Remote controlled flying robots, used for a wide range of purposes by governments or private companies as they're getting banned throughout the world for personal use. |
| Earthquake machine | A weapon of mass destruction which would trigger an earthquake |
| Explosive | |
| Nuclear weapon |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Disinformation" | “On 28 September 2023, the US Department of State released a landmark report on how the People’s Republic of China seeks to reshape the global information environment to its advantage by investing billions of dollars to construct a global information ecosystem that promotes its propaganda and facilitates censorship and the spread of "disinformation".<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> :China responded: "The US Department of State report is in itself disinformation as it misrepresents facts and truth. In fact, it is the US that invented the weaponizing of the global information space. The relevant center of the US State Department which concocted the report is engaged in propaganda and infiltration in the name of “global engagement”. It is a source of disinformation and the command center of “perception warfare”. :"From Operation Mockingbird which bribed and manipulated news media for propaganda purposes in the Cold War era, to a vial of white powder and a staged video of the 'White Helmets' cited as evidence to wage wars of aggression in Iraq and Syria earlier this century, and then to the enormous lie made up to smear China’s Xinjiang policy, facts have proven time and again that the US is an 'empire of lies' through and through. :"Even some in the US, such as Senator Rand Paul, acknowledged that the US government is the greatest propagator of "disinformation" in the history of the world."<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a>” | Ministry of Foreign Affairs The People's Republic of China | 30 September 2023 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:A Conundrum for Corbyn | article | 12 July 2016 | Conrad Sumer | Trident could be Corbyn's much more collegiate equivalent of Blair’s “Clause 4” moment, instead of facing off and bullying his party, he could bring them all together under the banner of nuclear reduction - and if he gets it right, he will almost certainly be the next Prime Minister. |
| Document:War and Peace - The Lost Principles of Science and Value | article | 17 June 2015 | John McMurtry | A wide-ranging critique of the techniques of globalisation and the way in which apparently otherwise well-meaning western NGOs frame the worlds problems in US war propaganda terms |
| File:A Global Chronology of Incidents of Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear Attacks 1950-2005.pdf | report | 7 July 2006 | Hamid Mohtadi Antu Murshid | A summary of Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear Attacks, from 1950 - 2005, giving the number of injuries and fatalities, and other information (if known) on the perpetrators and motives. |
| File:Israel and CB Weapons.pdf | review | October 2001 | Avner Cohen |
An official example
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| Grenade |
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