Curveball could face jail for war-mongering, says German MP

[sabra]

Source: Guardian UK

Agent whose lies about Saddam's weapons capability led to Iraq war has broken German law, says Green MP

A German politician has warned that the agent known as Curveball could go to jail after telling the Guardian that he lied about Saddam Hussein's bioweapons capability to "liberate" Iraq.

Green MP Hans-Christian Ströbele said that Curveball, a 43-year-old Iraqi dissident named Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, had arguably violated a German law that makes war-mongering illegal.

He also said that Gerhard Schröder, chancellor of Germany at the start of the Iraq war, should also reveal what he knew about the quality of evidence Curveball gave to Germany's secret service, the BND.

Under section 26 of German constitutional law, it is a criminal offence to do anything "with the intent to disturb the peaceful relations between nations, especially anything that leads to an aggressive war", said Ströbele.

"If Curveball is telling you that he lied about weapons of mass destruction in order to encourage the US to invade Iraq, then he has arguably broken the law," he said.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/16/curveball-jail-war-mongering-germany

[Solly Mack]

1. Yeah? Just him?

K&R

[grahamhgreen]

6. A good first step.

[mike_c]

2. while the real war criminals walk free in the U.S.....

:puke:

[pacalo]

3. I have just the lawyer for the case...

[dipsydoodle]

4. Same should at least apply

to the daughter of the Kuwait Ambassador to the US who pretended to me a nurse and lied about Iraqi soldiers turfing babies from incubators. It was that lie which encouraged Congress to authorise the original Gulf War.

When interviewed at a later date she just said "the lie served it purpose"

[jannyk]

5. Oh goody! We have ourselves a 'scapegoat'. It's all Curveball's fault.

:sarcasm:

[booksenkatz]

7. How interesting, I had no idea that one could warmonger in a vacuum. NT

[BetsysGhost]

8. Put him in the cell next to Bush

[sofa king]

9. Heh. I just saw CNN reporting on this in wonderment.

Amazing. Just wait until they report that the 9/11 terrorists were on Jack Abramoff's boat.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

10. Maybe the Germans will serve up some justice to these War Criminals

As the US government is clearly not going to do anything about them.