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'''[[Rafid Ahmed Alwan]]''', known by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] codename '''"Curveball"''', is an Iraqi citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program.<ref>BBC Online [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7075501.stm Iraq war source's name revealed], [[BBC News]] 2007-11-02</ref> Alwan's allegations were subsequently shown to be false by the [[Iraq Survey Group]]'s final report published in 2004.<ref>[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB234/index.htm The Record on CURVEBALL: Declassified Documents and Key Participants Show the Importance of Phony Intelligence in the Origins of the Iraq War], [[National Security Archive]], The George Washington University, 2007-11-07, accessed 27 April 2009</ref><ref>Bob Drogin [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/08-1NRspring/p12-drogin.html Determining the Reliability of a Key CIA Source] Nieman Foundation for Journalism at [[Harvard University]], Spring, 2008, accessed 27 April 2009</ref> | '''[[Rafid Ahmed Alwan]]''', known by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] codename '''"Curveball"''', is an Iraqi citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program.<ref>BBC Online [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7075501.stm Iraq war source's name revealed], [[BBC News]] 2007-11-02</ref> Alwan's allegations were subsequently shown to be false by the [[Iraq Survey Group]]'s final report published in 2004.<ref>[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB234/index.htm The Record on CURVEBALL: Declassified Documents and Key Participants Show the Importance of Phony Intelligence in the Origins of the Iraq War], [[National Security Archive]], The George Washington University, 2007-11-07, accessed 27 April 2009</ref><ref>Bob Drogin [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/08-1NRspring/p12-drogin.html Determining the Reliability of a Key CIA Source] Nieman Foundation for Journalism at [[Harvard University]], Spring, 2008, accessed 27 April 2009</ref> | ||
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| + | *Jonathan Owen, [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], ''The Independent'', 3 April 2012. | ||
Latest revision as of 19:04, 3 April 2012
Rafid Ahmed Alwan, known by the Central Intelligence Agency codename "Curveball", is an Iraqi citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program.[1] Alwan's allegations were subsequently shown to be false by the Iraq Survey Group's final report published in 2004.[2][3]
External Resources
- Jonathan Owen, Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all, The Independent, 3 April 2012.
Notes
- ↑ BBC Online Iraq war source's name revealed, BBC News 2007-11-02
- ↑ The Record on CURVEBALL: Declassified Documents and Key Participants Show the Importance of Phony Intelligence in the Origins of the Iraq War, National Security Archive, The George Washington University, 2007-11-07, accessed 27 April 2009
- ↑ Bob Drogin Determining the Reliability of a Key CIA Source Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, Spring, 2008, accessed 27 April 2009
