WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- The Iraqi defector who gave U.S. intelligence fabricated stories about Iraqi biological weapons that led to the war is living in Germany, ABC News reported.
Intelligence sources said the man who was known by the code name "Curveball" lives outside Munich under protection of the state police. He provided U.S. officials with claims Saddam Hussein's government had "mobile biological weapons labs," which fuelled the U.S. decision to invade in March 2003.
A month earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell used the claims in a speech before the United Nations.
However, a senior CIA source told ABC that Curveball was considered an "unstable, immature and unreliable" source by several senior agents, which angered Powell in an interview.
"I spent four days at CIA headquarters, and they told me they had this nailed," Powell said.
Tyler Drumheller, the former chief of European operations at the CIA, said the war has a different look when viewed from Curveball's perspective.
"People died because of this," Drumheller told ABC. "All off this one little guy ... all he wanted to do was stay in Germany."
