Bushco prime source for phony mobile labs codenamed..."Curveball"!!!

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http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/columnists/jonathan_s_landay/8348849.htm

Posted on Sat, Apr. 03, 2004

INC supplied defectors who were sources of questionable pre-war information, officials say

By Jonathan S. Landay and Drew Brown
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - The Iraqi National Congress, a U.S.-funded group of former Iraqi exiles, supplied the four defectors whose claims that Saddam Hussein had mobile biological warfare facilities now are being questioned by Secretary of State Colin Powell.

One of the defectors was code-named Curveball, senior U.S. officials said, and Curveball was the brother of a top lieutenant to Ahmed Chalabi, the group's leader and now a member of the Iraqi Governing Council. U.S. intelligence officials never directly questioned Curveball before the war, they said.

<>Powell's questioning of the defectors' claims puts added pressure on a bipartisan commission named by President Bush in February to examine the quality and use of pre-war intelligence that Saddam had secret stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and was developing nuclear weapons in violation of a U.N. ban.

U.S.-led occupation troops and arms inspectors who have been scouring the country have to date found no biologic weapons stockpiles or evidence that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program. Two truck trailers matching the description of the alleged biowarfare vehicles were turned over to U.S. troops, but their purpose remains in dispute.

Powell charged in a Feb. 5, 2003, speech to the U.N. Security Council that Iraq had mobile biological warfare production and research facilities. At the time, he was seeking a U.N. resolution backing a U.S.-led invasion.

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1. Duped by The IRC....

Chalabi and the IRC played the US like a drum! They knew that the incoming Bush Admin would have a hard one for going after Saddam, so they supplied Bush Co with everything that they wanted to hear. Just like the Incubator story of GW1 the IRC wanted US support to further their own goals.

Chalabi=Saddam, both want total control of Iraq, just wonder how long the US troops will be out of Iraq before he takes it.