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  • 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

  • I thank him also for introducing us to Sheikh Hussein Ali al-Shaalan, from whom we learned so much, and Adnan al-Janabi, who inspired me to seek out books by Hanna Batatu, Ali al-Wardi, and Ibn Khaldun.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • I thank him also for introducing us to Sheikh Hussein Ali al-Shaalan, from whom we learned so much, and Adnan al-Janabi, who inspired me to seek out books by Hanna Batatu, Ali al-Wardi, and Ibn Khaldun.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Nothing will happen without the approval of the president, Deputy Information Minister Abdu al-Janabi told reporters on Monday.

    U.S. pushes for Yemen solution as Saleh vows return 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

  • “You have a conflict—land theft, irrigation rights, car accident,” Adnan al-Janabi, a tribal sheikh who trained as an economist and was an OPEC official in the 1970s, told me.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • “You have a conflict—land theft, irrigation rights, car accident,” Adnan al-Janabi, a tribal sheikh who trained as an economist and was an OPEC official in the 1970s, told me.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Nothing will happen without the approval of the president, Deputy Information Minister Abdu al-Janabi told reporters on Monday.

    U.S. pushes for Yemen solution as Saleh vows return 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

  • Called "Killing by the Numbers," it tells the tale of a group of snipers who killed an unarmed Iraqi vegetable farmer named Genei Nesir Khudair al-Janabi last year.

    U.S. Sniper Program in Crosshairs - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

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