Curveball (informant)

"Curveball" is the codename of an Iraqi defector who worked as an informant for U.S. and other allied intelligence agencies in the lead-up to the Iraq War. His real name is Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi. He is known for providing fabricated information regarding Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), particularly asserting that Iraq had mobile biological weapons laboratories. Curveball's claims were influential in shaping the narrative that led to the U.S.