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Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball's WMD lies | World news | The Guardian

Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball's WMD lies | World news | The Guardian: "Colin Powell, the US secretary of state at the time of the Iraq invasion, has called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain why they failed to alert him to the unreliability of a key source behind claims of Saddam Hussein's bio-weapons capability.

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