Well Panorama, they didn't quite fool the world -
3 million marched in London because they didn't believe the BBC lies
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=164034#164034
My piece tonight on press regulation and the
royal charter - as not shown on the BBC - obviously !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMefWN1iso8
The Spies Who Fooled the World
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq
War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the
secret intelligence used by Downing Street and
the White House to justify the invasion were
based on fabrication, wishful thinking and lies.
Peter Taylor tracks down some of those
responsible and reports on the remarkable story
of how, in the months before the war, two
highly-placed sources - close to Saddam Hussein -
talked secretly to the CIA and MI6. Their
intelligence said Iraq did not have an active WMD
programme - but it was simply dismissed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rh8hd
Iraq anniversary: war intelligence 'was a lie', BBC Panorama documentary says
Key intelligence used to justify the invasion of
Iraq ten years ago was based on "fabrication" and
"wishful thinking", a documentary is to claim.
Soldiers from the Kings own Scottish Borderers
patrolling a camel train near the Tigres river
outside Al Amara in Northern Iraq in 2003. Photo: PA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/9936180/Iraq-anniversary-war-intelligence-was-a-lie-BBC-Panorama-documentary-to-say.html
By Tom Whitehead, and Duncan Gardham - 11:42PM GMT 17 Mar 2013
The US and UK are accused of relying on
questionable information that suggested Saddam
Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass
destruction (WMD), despite warnings over its authenticity.
At the same time, other foreign intelligence that
suggested no such programme existed was
dismissed, according to a BBC Panorama investigation.
One Iraqi spy – codenamed "Curveball" – whose
claims to have witnessed the manufacture of WMD
were seized upon by the Americans told the
programme the invasion had been based on his "lie".
Lord Butler, who, a year after the invasion,
carried out a British review of the intelligence
used, admitted that he was unaware that two
senior members of Saddam's regime had secretly
told the CIA and MI6 that WMD did not exist.
The documentary will reignite questions over the
legality and justification of the Iraq war. One
source told the programme the conflict was borne
out of "choice" rather than "necessity".
The war, which started on March 20, 2003, lasted
more than six years, claimed the lives of 179 UK
personnel, more than 100,000 Iraqis, and cost
more than £9 billion. Britain ended combat
operations there in 2009, but the war remains
unfinished business, with questions remaining
about the legality of the invasion and the conduct of British troops.
Tonight's Panorama: The Spies Who Fooled The
World, reports how claims from a few sources that
Iraq was manufacturing WMD spiralled into
apparently sound intelligence that was used to
justify the war. In his first TV interview on the
subject, August Hanning, the former head of
German intelligence, said that Curveball, whose
real name is Rafed Al Janabi, told the German
secret services that he had witnessed the
manufacture of chemical and biological weapons.
The information was passed by the Germans to
American and British intelligence, along with
concerns about its reliability, he said.
Tyler Drumheller, the former head of the CIA in
Europe, also claimed that he passed warnings
about Curveball's claims up the chain of command,
while Mr Hanning said he sent a cable to George
Tenet, who was then director of the CIA. Mr Tenet
denies receiving the warnings, the programme said.
Joschka Fischer, the former German foreign
minister, said US colleagues were warned about
the information. However, he told Panorama: "They
were not in a state, or a mindset to be warned."
Peter Taylor, a Panorama reporter, asked
Curveball: "The fact is we went to war in Iraq on
a lie. And that lie was your lie." "Yes," he replied, smiling.
A claim from another source given to French
security services, which suggested that Iraq was
buying large amounts of uranium ore, is said to
have spread like "contagion" through the
intelligence community. Pierre Brochand, the
former head of France's foreign intelligence
agency, told the programme: "We felt that
intelligence was used to justify a war, which was
a war of choice, of pure choice. But the
intelligence was used to disguise that as a war of necessity."
Panorama heard how Iraq's foreign minister, Naji
Sabri, and head of intelligence, Tahir Habbush
al-Tikriti, separately revealed to the CIA and
MI6 that there was no active WMD programme, but
that information was not given the same credence.
Lord Butler said he did not know about Habbush's
evidence until after the inquiry and never knew about Sabri's comments.
The Real Story of 'Curveball': How German
Intelligence Helped Justify the US Invasion of Iraq
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-real-story-of-curveball-how-german-intelligence-helped-justify-the-us-invasion-of-iraq-a-542840.html
By Erich Follath, John Goetz, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark
Five years ago, the US government presented what
it said was proof that Iraq harbored biological
weapons. The information came from a source
developed by German intelligence -- and it turned
out to be disastrously wrong. But to this day,
Germany denies any responsibility.
If you're looking to hide out from the rest of
the world, the grayish white residential block in
this southern German city would be a good place
to be. Six families live here, most of them with
children, and the building blends inconspicuously
into the dull suburban skyline. A green toy
tractor is parked out front, the bicycles have
baby trailers, one of them complete with an
American flag fluttering in the breeze. On a
mailbox hanging outside the building's entrance,
the name Rafed has been scrawled in pale green
handwriting -- difficult to read, but decipherable from up close.
There are many the world over who would love a
chance to chat with the man whose mail lands in
this post box. The US Congress is desperately
interested in him, and the White House once even
expressed an interest in trotting him out on
primetime television. A book has been written
about him and Hollywood is currently working on a
motion picture documenting his life.
The man's codename is "Curveball." And in an
earlier life, he played a crucial role in the
geo-politics at the beginning of this decade: He
was the man who provided vital "evidence" that
ultimately contributed to the invasion of Iraq by
the United States and its allies. But that role
has since turned into his greatest problem:
Everything he claimed to know about Iraq's
weapons program, all the proof he presented, was
fabricated. His lifeline, though, has yet to be
cut: Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the
Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), remains loyal to
their source. They keep him under cover and
protect him from uncomfortable questions -- here in southern Germany.
Blown Cover
At first, there are no signs of life from
"Curveball's" ground-floor dwelling in the drab
apartment building. The doorbell has a bad
contact, the neighbors said; you have to hold the
button down for a long time. Children’s shoes and
men’s sandals are arrayed in front of the door; a
German forest landscape hangs on the wall. And
then, after a long wait, the door swings open. A
stocky man with a full shock of black hair and a
stubbly beard stands in the doorway. He is
wearing an orange T-shirt and pajama bottoms.
Still groggy from sleep, he blinks out at his
unexpected visitor. “Rafed?” -- “Yeah, that’s
me," he says. It is the moment when Rafed knows his cover has been blown.
In baseball, a curveball is pure deception. It
spins quickly, and changes direction, making it
very difficult for the batter to make contact. A
curveball lures the batter to swing at a ball that is no longer there.
Rafed's deceptions unleashed their full power on
Feb. 5, 2003 at the United Nations building in
New York City. It was the day that US Secretary
of State Colin Powell went before the UN Security
Council in an effort to convince the world that
an invasion of Iraq was an absolute necessity.
It was 10:30 a.m. local time, when Powell
launched into his lecture, and it immediately
became clear that he was playing to an audience
larger than the UN representatives gathered
before him. He was speaking to the world. “Every
statement I make today is backed up by sources,
solid sources," he said. "These are not
assertions. What we're giving you are facts and
conclusions based on solid intelligence.” As
Powell moved through his 76-minute-long
presentation, a horror scenario unfolded.
Baghdad, he said, was still in pursuit of weapons
of mass destruction, including atomic, chemical
and biological devices. That pursuit, Powell made
clear, was in violation of UN sanctions.
The climax of the lecture came when he told his
audience about the mobile biological weapons
laboratories -- mini factories mounted on the
back of trucks churning out some of the most
dangerous diseases known to mankind. That was the
"most dramatic" part of the presentation Powell says today.
But there was drama right from the beginning.
Early on, the Secretary of State held up a small
vial containing white powder -- meant to
represent anthrax spores. Saddam Hussein, he
said, “could have produced 25,000 liters” of the
stuff. Saddam Hussein spins a “web of lies"
Powell said and spoke of “one last chance” which
Iraq had chosen not to take advantage of. The
country harbors a "deadly network of terrorism,"
he said, and as a result, the world "must not shrink from whatever is ahead."
The response to the speech, broadcast as it was
to the entire world, was overwhelming. On the
following day, the US Secretary of State could be
seen with the anthrax vial on the front page of
newspapers from Sydney to Sao Paolo, from Paris
to Beijing. “We love him,” rejoiced the Jerusalem
Post, hardly a Powell-friendly paper until then.
Everyone was suddenly talking about biological
weapons -- about the “trailers of death” and “hell on wheels.”
Above all, however, Powell was able to convince
many of his fellow Americans who had harbored
doubts about the need to go to war in the Middle
East. Following Powell's appearance, surveys
revealed that half of all US citizens supported a
war on Iraq. And the Secretary of State himself
was delighted with his performance. He had small
plaques made for everyone who had helped prepare
the speech. But those he convinced that winter
day in 2003 would come to regret it. As the world
came to discover, nothing of what he said was
truthful. There were no Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction at the time Powell made his
presentation. There were no mobile biological
weapons laboratories. And there were no
connections between Iraq and the terrorist organization al-Qaida.
An 'Invaluable Asset'
The reactions around the UN Security Council
table on that day just over five years ago were
primarily characterized by diplomatic reserve --
including that of the man who chaired the fateful
session: Joschka Fischer, Germany's foreign
minister at the time. The German delegation had
set up a secure line from New York directly to
the BND intelligence offices in Berlin, where the
agents followed Powell's speech on a big screen.
Like Powell, who made certain that then-CIA
Director George Tenet was visible behind him on
the world's TV screens, Fischer had also brought
along an important intelligence official. But
Hans Dieter H., the BND's proliferation expert,
was not seated near the foreign minister. Rather,
he was positioned diagonally behind Tenet and
Powell. The seating was little more than chance;
the UN had to set up several additional rows of
chairs to accommodate the large audience. The
result, though, was that Germany's intelligence
representative was seated together with those who supported the war.
As is now clear, the seating was auspicious. The
German secret service actually had more to do
with providing justification for the US invasion
of Iraq than it would now like to admit.
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder -- like his
colleagues in Paris and Moscow -- was a vehement
opponent of the war. But of all people, his own
agents provided Washington with the key bit of
“evidence” which helped fuel the war hysteria:
the story about the mobile biological weapons
laboratories. It was information that helped
justify a war that has cost more than 500,000
lives and plunged the Middle East into chaos. And
this information came from just one man: “Curveball.”
He was, as Tenet said then, an "invaluable
asset." Today, it is clear that "Curveball" is an
imposter, a fabulist, a man who, in the US, is
referred to as the "con man who caused the war."
"Curveball," writes spy-thriller author Frederick
Forsyth, is responsible for the "biggest fiasco
in the history of secret intelligence."
Germany's BND is the agency responsible for this
man. And the most important question surrounding
"Curveball" still hasn't been answered to this
day. Why does German intelligence remain loyal to its source?
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Covetousnesse be gon: Come, Truth and Love arise.
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Please consider seriously the reason why these elite institutions are not discussed in the mainstream press despite the immense financial and political power they wield?
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