Fact check
Is it true: Curveball (Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi): fabricated mobile-bioweapon-lab source (2000-2003)?
Yes — this is confirmed.
Senate Intelligence Committee (2004) and Iraq Survey Group Duelfer Report (2005) both found Curveball's mobile-bioweapon claims without factual basis. No mobile laboratories were found post-invasion. Alwan admitted fabrication to The Guardian in 2011. His claims were central to Colin Powell's 5 February 2003 UN Security Council presentation.
The claim
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed "Curveball" by the German BND intelligence service, was an Iraqi defector whose fabricated claims of mobile biological-weapons laboratories formed a central pill
Key evidence
Powell's UN presentation used Curveball diagrams directly
Alwan admitted fabrication to The Guardian, 2011
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