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
Iraq and weapons of mass destruction of the Atomic Scientists, disagree with this view, however. There were far too many technological challenges unsolved, they say. In 1980, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency filed a report stating that Iraq had been actively acquiring chemical weapons capacities for several years, which later proved to be accurate. In November 1980, two months into the Iran–Iraq War, the first reported use of chemical weapons took place when Tehran radio reported a poison gas attack on Susangerd by Iraqi forces. The United Nations reported many similar attacks occurred the following year, leading Iran to develop and deploy a mustard gas capability.