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Curveball is the code name used by the CIA for an Iraqi informant who provided bad information relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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60 Minutes: Faulty Intel Source "Curve Ball" Revealed
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CBS News Video: 'Curve Ball' Revealed (Time: 0:49)
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Wikipedia: Rafid Ahmed Alwan
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USA Today: "60 Minutes identifies discredited Iraqi informant 'Curveball'"
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Washington Post: "U.S. program unveils man behind Iraq weapons story"
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ABC News: Curveball, the Defector Whose Lies Led to War
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Video: ABC News clip on 'Curveball' (Time: 2:40)
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60 Minutes: Faulty Intel Source "Curve Ball" Revealed
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http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2004/B05160MIL2004.htm is on MLBN tomorrow. Cannot wait. Ben had the best curveball I've seen that day
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@Flypiloten I might have a small idea of how they feel out there. Below freezing flying definitely throws you a curveball.
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Mexican Pop Sophisticate Natalia Lafourcade Plays Chicago http://tinyurl.com/y9zdl2c -@pmarg throws yet another rewarding curveball #fb
@fullyaltered | November 14, 2009 03:52 AM
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Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War - $26.95
Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America’s intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Drogin delivers a narr...
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Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War - $26.95
Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America’s intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Drogin delivers a narr...
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FOX Curveball Black Tee - BLACK x MED - $22.50
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Why a Curveball Curves: The Incredible Science of Sports - $17.95
Sports. They get our blood pumping and our hearts racing. Fans scream and cheer as their favorite athletes run, throw, pedal, dive, or swing their way to victory. But what makes an athlete successful...
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Curveball Timeline
- 1994: Graduated last in the Chemical Engineer class at Baghdad University
- 1999: Seeks asylum in Germany; faced charges of embezzlement from the Iraqi government
- 2000: Debriefed by the German Intelligence Agency (BND)
- 2002: The BND tells the CIA that Curveball is a 'fabricator'
- 2003: Colin Powell uses mis-information from Curveball in his February address to The United Nations
- 2003: David Kay heads up the Iraq Survey Group in an investigation of Curveball's background
- 2007: Identity of Curveball is finally revealed
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