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  • The defector, real name Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, told the Guardian that he lied to the BND, Germany's secret service, by claiming in 2000 that Iraq had mobile bioweapons trucks and had built clandestine factories.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The Guardian ran a story two weeks ago, in which Iraqi chemical engineering dilettante, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi -- codenamed "Curveball" by somebody in espionage with an obvious sense of humor -- admitted that everything he told German interrogators about WMD in Iraq was a fabrication, a whopper, a stinking lie.

    Gail Vida Hamburg: As Iraq War Memory Fades, the Art Endures Gail Vida Hamburg 2011

  • However, before we voted to authorise President George W Bush to invade Iraq, Congress was informed of the tenuous nature of numerous claims – including those of Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, otherwise known as Curveball – relating to the intelligence on a WMD programme in Iraq.

    Letters: Curveball and the mass deception 2011

  • The Guardian ran a story two weeks ago, in which Iraqi chemical engineering dilettante, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi -- codenamed "Curveball" by somebody in espionage with an obvious sense of humor -- admitted that everything he told German interrogators about WMD in Iraq was a fabrication, a whopper, a stinking lie.

    Gail Vida Hamburg: As Iraq War Memory Fades, the Art Endures Gail Vida Hamburg 2011

  • However, before we voted to authorise President George W Bush to invade Iraq, Congress was informed of the tenuous nature of numerous claims - including those of Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, otherwise known as

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • I read with amazement the declaration by Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, code name "Curveball," of how proud he and his sons were that he had fabricated the claim that Saddam Hussein's government had biological weapons in the run-up to the 2003 invasion and that this fabrication had provided Iraq with a margin of democracy.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • The man, Rafid Qeryaqos, a Christian jewelry salesman, apologized for not offering his guest a Pepsi or even a bottle of water.

    NYT > Home Page By TIM ARANGO 2011

  • Rafid Ahmed Alwan, aka "Curve Ball," talking to "60 Minutes" correspondent Bob Simon.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2011

  • "Do you think you helped get Saddam Hussein out of Iraq?" correspondent Bob Simon asked Rafid Alwan, a.k.a.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2011

  • His brother, Rafid, 19, also works at the car wash, but has a second job in a small satellite television repair shop where he works with his stepfather.

    post-gazette.com - News 2009

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