Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi

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Person.png Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
BornRafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi
1968
Iraq
NationalityGerman, Iraqi
Alma materBaghdad University
The purported source of the lies about Saddam Hussein's WMDs.

'Curveball' is a cryptonym given to Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi.

 

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Document:US Feigns "Horror" Over Cooked-Up Report on Syrian War They Engineered“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 tomorrow. "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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Document:US Feigns "Horror" Over Cooked-Up Report on Syrian War They Engineeredarticle22 January 2014Tony CartalucciEssential information about the 'Shock-Horror' report on alleged Syrian government atrocities, published the day before the 'Geneva 2' talks on the ongoing Syrian disaster were due to start
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