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To: Brumar89 who wrote (401023)	7/23/2008 2:56:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578989

Bush Administration Claims vs. The Facts No mobile biological weapons labs were found in Iraq Pre-War Claims: Senior members of the Bush administration claimed that Iraq possessed truck-mounted and train-mounted mobile biological weapons laboratories. Facts: There is no evidence of the existence of mobile bioweapons laboratories. The chief source for the Bush administration’s claim was an Iraqi defector, codenamed “Curveball.” Prior to the invasion of Iraq, British intelligence, German intelligence, and analysts from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA determined that Curveball was a fabricator, and was therefore completely unreliable as an intelligence source. Three other Iraqi defectors who corroborated Curveball’s claims were also found to be fabricators. By May 2002, the Defense Intelligence Agency issued an official “fabrication notice” instructing other intelligence agencies to disregard the defector's information as unreliable. Overview: Although Curveball and a former Iraqi intelligence service defector, who corroborated Curveball’s story, were both determined to be fabricators by multiple intelligence agencies before the war – and despite the fact that the Bush administration was briefed on this – Bush, Powell and other senior officials persisted in citing Curveball’s fictitious claims about the existence of mobile bioweapons labs as solid facts. Two trailers found in Mosul and Irbil after the invasion were not mobile biological weapons labs. [link to story and timeline] leadingtowar.com