Iraqi defector 'Curveball' Janabi denies WMD claims

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12478238
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An Iraqi defector whose claims Saddam Hussein had biological weapons helped justify the 2003 invasion has said he lied to bring the ex-leader down.

In an interview for the UK's Guardian newspaper, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball, said he had to do something to bring democracy to Iraq.

He said Iraq had mobile biological weapons and clandestine factories.

His false evidence was used by the then US Secretary of State Colin Powell in a key speech to the UN in February 2003.

Mr Janabi told The Guardian he was "shocked" by Mr Powell's speech.

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He calls an illegal war that led to the deaths of over one million Iraqis democracy.

Who the hell is this man and what were his links to the war profiteers in both Iraq, Britain and the US?