The Ultimate Source

(CBS) 60 Minutes has identified the man whose fabricated story of Iraqi biological weapons drove the U.S. argument for invading Iraq. It has also obtained video of "Curve Ball," as he was known in intelligence circles, and discovered he was not only a liar, but also a thief and a poor student instead of the chemical engineering whiz he claimed to be.

60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon's two-year investigation will be broadcast this Sunday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Curve Ball is an Iraqi defector named Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who arrived at a German refugee center in 1999. To bolster his asylum case and increase his importance, he told officials he was a star chemical engineer who had been in charge of a facility at Djerf al Nadaf that was making mobile biological weapons.

So there you are. The source that President Bush and his cronies swore up and down to be credible and totally reliable about all those WMD's in Iraq.

Nothing more than a college student who was getting poor grades in chemistry, who lied to improve his case for asylum in Germany.

His lies have cost us Americans over 3,000 lives and two trillion dollars... with no end in sight.

Keep in mind it's the same batch of idiots that believed Rafid who are now telling us that Iran is building the bomb.