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WASHINGTON — The Iraqi defector whose claim that Sad dam Hussein’s government had biological weapons became part of the Bush administration’s justification for the 2003 invasion of Iraq has admitted he fabricated the story.
The defector, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who was dubbed “Curveball” by the CIA and German intelligence officials, told the British newspaper The Guardian on Tuesday that he had concocted his tale that Iraq was hiding mobile bioweapons laboratories. He did so, he said, in hopes that his lies would lead to the eventual overthrow of the Iraqi ruler.
