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
Governmental positions on the Iraq War prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq saying that it would destabilize the region and empower the much more dangerous regime in Iran. However it was reported in the Washington Post that "Israel is urging United States' officials not to delay a military strike against Iraq's Saddam Hussein". It was also reported in 2002 that Israeli intelligence provided Washington with alarming reports about Iraq's alleged program to develop weapons of mass destruction. According to former US undersecretary of defense Douglas Feith, Israeli officials did not push their American counterparts to initiate the war in Iraq. In an interview with Ynet, Feith stated that "what you heard from