Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi -"Curveball" per a la CIA- explica a The Guardian que va mentir sobre les armes de destrucció massiva (ADM) de Saddam Hussein perquè volia enderrocar el seu règim. Les seves falses o exagerades afirmacions les va fer servir davant el Consell de Seguretat de l'ONU l'exsecretari d'Estat Colin Powell i van servir també, entre altres raons, per justificar la guerra de l'Iraq.
The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war.
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and American intelligence officials who dealt with his claims, has told the Guardian that he fabricated tales of mobile bioweapons trucks and clandestine factories in an attempt to bring down the Saddam Hussein regime, from which he had fled in 1995.
