Reply #16: "Iraqi Proud of His WMD Lies That Led to War"

[Ghost in the Machine]

(CBS/AP) LONDON - "Curveball," the once-anonymous Iraqi man whose testimony was used as a key evidence to build a case for war in Iraq, told a British newspaper he is proud that he lied about his country developing mobile biological warfare labs.


The Guardian newspaper published an interview Wednesday with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who has been identified as the informer called "Curveball," whose claims about weapon labs formed part of then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the U.N. Security Council in 2003, shortly before the war began.


The Guardian quoted al-Janabi as saying: "I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime. I and my sons are proud of that and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy."


Although some intelligence agents were skeptical of Curveball's story, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee reported in 2004 that the Central Intelligence Agency "withheld important information about Curveball's reliability" from analysts dealing with the case.


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