Invasion in Iraq due to ‘false information’

In an interview for The Guardian, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, whose code name is Curveball, declares that he has lied regarding the existence of a biological weapons program of Iraq ‘because this was his last chance to escape the Iraki of Saddam Husseins’ regime.

He made up a story about the existence of some secret factories and some mobile biological weapons.

‘I might have been right or wrong. I was offered that opportunity. I had the chance to pull down the regime. My sons and I are proud of that due to us Iraq embarkes upon democracy’, Curveball declared.

His confess was made short after celebrating eight years since the former American Foreign Minister, Collin Powell, made his speech at the United Nations when was defending for the need of a war in Iraq, counting on the information given by Rafid al-Janabi to the German Secret Service.

The former president of CIA in Europe, Tyler Drumheller, described Rafid’s statements as ‘fascinating’ and asserted that finding out the truth ‘made him feel better’.

He added: ‘I believe that still there are people who keep on considering that in Iraq have existed biological weapons’.

Initially, Curveball denied having given any information to the United States

In the past, Rafid al-Janabi was largely interviewed only one time when he denied that he had given any hand to the United States in order to give an excuse for the invasion in Iraq.

Now, during a series of meetings with The Guardian’s journalists in Germany, where Curveball got asylum, stated that German Secret Service took him as a chemical engineer and approached him in order to find out more details related to Saddam Husseins’ intentions.

‘I had a problem with the regime. I wanted to get rid of it and that moment I had been given the chance’, he declared.

He depicted the German Secret Service as gullible and so willing to get information from him as they gave him a book, which he still has, with chemical engineering terms in order to facilitate communication.

After the speech made by Colin Powell, Rafid al-Janabi got in touch with the German officers whom he accused of breaking the deal of not forwarding the acquired information.

According to his version, he had been said not to forget the topic and he was confined to house arrest for nineteen days.

Rafid al-Janabi said he was shocked by what Colin Powell had asserted in 2003 but he believed that he had done the right thing ‘despite the chaos set in Iraq and the victims of the war’.

‘When I find out that someone dies in a war but not in Iraq precisely, I am very sad. Do we have any choice? Believe me, there is no other way to set Iraq free’, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi ended.

Translated by: Cristina Anamaria Maricescu
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University