Jeremy Scahill on Soldiers of Fortune :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it: "The writer speaks with Truthdig about his new book, 'Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army,' privatization in America and abroad, and our dysfunctional democracy. "
Iraqi weapons 'expert' unmasked as a fraud - Independent Online Edition > Americas : "The Iraqi defector whose claims regarding Saddam Hussein's biological warfare capabilities were central to the US government's case for the 2003 invasion, despite repeated warnings that they were dubious, has been unmasked by a television documentary. The informer, codenamed Curveball was Rafid Ahmed Alwan who, in 1999, turned up at a refugee centre in Germany seeking political asylum. He went on to convince the Pentagon he was a brilliant chemist who had helped develop mobile biological warfare laboratories."
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