From Newsmax:
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is demanding answers from the CIA and Pentagon after an Iraqi defector stepped forward to admit he fabricated claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in advance of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Powell – who has stated that his prewar speech to the United Nations accusing Iraq of harboring weapons of mass destruction was a "blot" on his record – spoke out a day after Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi told the
Guardian newspaper that he made up claims of mobile biological weapons and clandestine factories when making reports to Germany's intelligence service, the BND.
The BND had approached Janabi, who was codenamed "Curveball" by U.S. and German intelligence officials, in...
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