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Curveball

June 2020

  • Doug Hansell, Blake Erickson and Katrina Retallick, in Who’s Your Baghdaddy? (Or How I Started the Iraq War), a livestreamed musical.

    Who's Your Baghdaddy review – a surreal, musical support meeting for Iraq war architects

    Off-Broadway musical satire dives into Australian live-streaming with a cast of vocal powerhouses and no hint of video lag

22 February 2011

  • Curveball and the mass deception

    Letters: Here is Iraq, the country of my birth, riven by sectarianism and terrorism, with millions of widows, fatherless children and war-disabled, trying to cope with their blighted lives caused by an illegal war based on lies

20 February 2011

  • Peter Preston

    Our clueless spies

    Peter Preston
    Peter Preston: Secret agents are supposed to know what's going on – but history tells a different story

17 February 2011

  • Joschka Fischer at the launch of his Iraq war memoir, I Am Not Convinced, in Berlin.

    Curveball doubts were shared with CIA, says ex-German foreign minister

  • Bush, the neocons and the fantasies of Curveball

16 February 2011

  • Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi aka Curveball

    Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball's WMD lies

    Former US secretary of state asks why CIA failed to warn him over Iraqi defector who has admitted fabricating WMD evidence

  • Curveball, the Iraqi agent and defector

    Curveball could face jail for warmongering, says German MP

    Agent whose lies about Saddam's weapons capability led to Iraq war has broken German law, says Green MP

    • Curveball deserves permanent exile for WMD lies, say Iraq politicians

    • Politics blog
      Curveball's confession: another dent in the Iraq conspiracy theory

    • Curveball's admission 'raises questions about CIA'

15 February 2011

  • Curveball and the manufacture of a lie

    Carne Ross

  • Iraqi defector Curveball: 'I had to do something for my country' – video

  • Curveball: How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam

  • Colin Powell makes his presentation to the UN in February 203, ahead of the Iraq invasion.

    Curveball admissions vindicate suspicions of CIA's former Europe chief

  • News blog
    Curveball: live Q&A with Martin Chulov and Helen Pidd

  • Curveball's lies – and the consequences

  • Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war

December 2010

  • British soldiers wearing protective chemical suits in 2003

    CIA source who built case for war swindles $10,000 from Iraq

    Defector known as Curveball returns to homeland and lures government officials into scam

April 2004

  • Germans accuse US over Iraq weapons claim

    An Iraqi defector nicknamed Curveball who wrongly claimed that Saddam Hussein had mobile chemical weapons factories was last night at the centre of a bitter row between the CIA and Germany's intelligence agency.

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