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Biowar Liar, Chilling in Germany

"The Iraqi defector known as Curveball, whose fabricated stories of ‘mobile biological weapons labs‘ helped lead the U.S. to war four years ago, is still being protected by the German intelligence service, an ABC News investigation has found." Intelligence sources, who provided ABCNews.com with the first known photo of the man, say he has been […]

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"The Iraqi defector known as Curveball, whose fabricated stories of 'mobile biological weapons labs' helped lead the U.S. to war four years ago, is still being protected by the German intelligence service, an
ABC News investigation has found."

*Intelligence sources, who provided ABCNews.com with the first known photo of the man, say he has been resettled in a small town near the
Munich headquarters of the German service, which has continued to honor its original commitment made when he fled Iraq in 1999. *

Curveball's false tales became the centerpiece of Secretary of State
Colin Powell's speech before the United Nations in February 2003, even though he was considered an "unstable, immature and unreliable" source by some senior officials at the CIA.