"Curve Ball", el informante que Bush usó para justificar la invasión a Irak, al descubierto

"Curve Ball" no sólo mintió acerca de las armas biológicas que supuestamente existían en Irak, sino que resultó tener un expediente criminal de robo, y era además un mediocre estudiante de ingeniería química sin graduarse. Algo que recordar ahora que EU lanza toda una retórica en contra de Irán para pretextar su invasión.

(CBS) 60 Minutes has identified the man whose fabricated story of Iraqi biological weapons drove the U.S. argument for invading Iraq. It has also obtained video of "Curve Ball," as he was known in intelligence circles, and discovered he was not only a liar, but also a thief and a poor student instead of the chemical engineering whiz he claimed to be.

Curve Ball is an Iraqi defector named Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who arrived at a German refugee center in 1999. To bolster his asylum case and increase his importance, he told officials he was a star chemical engineer who had been in charge of a facility at Djerf al Nadaf that was making mobile biological weapons.

60 Minutes has learned that Alwan’s university records indicate he did study chemical engineering but earned nearly all low marks, mostly 50s. Simon’s investigation also uncovered an arrest warrant for theft from the Babel television production company in Baghdad where he once worked.