Fabricator (intelligence) ... Pentagon policy officials ... undertook the collection of sensitive intelligence. ... It was a rogue operation." "Ahmed Chalabi" is an Iraqi politician and Iranian agent who fed and promoted false intelligence reports of weapons of mass destruction to Bush Administration officials in order to encourage the 2003 invasion of Iraq. "Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi" is an Iraqi citizen who peddled fabrications regarding Iraqi WMDs to western intelligence services. Known under his codename "Curveball", his fabrications compromised the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate. He was a prolific fabricator with his information generating over 100 false intelligence reports for the BND and
Rationale for the Iraq War interview that it was "not in conformity with the Security Council." Accusations of faulty evidence and alleged shifting rationales became the focal point for critics of the war, who charge that the Bush Administration purposely fabricated evidence to justify an invasion that it had long planned to launch. The U.S. led the effort for "the redirection of former Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (weapons of mass destruction) scientists, technicians and engineers to civilian employment and discourage emigration of this community from Iraq." The United States officially declared its combat role in Iraq over on August 31, 2010, although several thousand