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By: Jonas Rabbe

Jonas Rabbe — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:16:38 +0000

batshit and fruitbats.

By: AkaXakA

AkaXakA — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:46:23 +0000

Ironically yet logically, Germany were they biggest opponents of the Iraq war.

PS. I like the term batshit.

By: Joen

Joen — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:43:01 +0000

Thanks for adding that, Jonas. It does kinda elaborate and explain my somewhat short entry.

Essentially, the intelligence was batshit, to use my new favourite expression, and the worlds most powerful man should know that.

By: Jonas Rabbe

Jonas Rabbe — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:15:47 +0000

Just found a few articles. From the Winston-Salem Journal: Conned by 'Curveball' while the Christian Science Monitor has a nice roundup from different sources

By: Jonas Rabbe

Jonas Rabbe — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:11:34 +0000

Interesting coincidence, I read an article about Curveball just this morning on my way to work. The German intelligence service (BND) was the connecting link between Curveball and the US. Intelligence officers from BND are now commenting that Curveball was unreliable, probably with mental problems, right from the beginning, and that they informed the US that any information learned from Curveball would be unreliable at best (and maybe total fabrication). Needless to say they were a bit shocked when Bush and Colin Powell used the information learned from Curveball as one of the main reasons to goto war.

By: Joen

Joen — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:18:32 +0000

I was referring to the context in the article:

The report also criticizes both the CIA and the Defense Human Intelligence Service's handling of an informer code-named "Curveball," noting that the DHIS "demonstrated serious lapses in handling such an important source."

By: Stone Hardman

Stone Hardman — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:24:20 +0000

Honestly now, is Curveball any worse than Deepthroat? I’m not entirely surprised by this ridiculous choice of name, but I personally think you’re putting a bit too much stock into it.