The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) finally admitted that the main inspiration who prompted the US to invade Iraq spreading fear of mobile chemical labs capable of launching germs is “mentally unstable” “an Iraqi defector suspected of being mentally unstable and a liar.”

A year long probe that covered 3 continents said that the informant known only as "Curveball," a probe that extended to three continents, who drove a taxi in Iraq and spun his engineering knowledge into a fantastic but plausible tale about secret bio-weapons factories on wheels.

The Washington Post said US intelligence agencies “were eagerly drawn in by reports about a troubled defector’s claims of secret germ factories in Iraqi desert.”