ABSTRACT
In December 2000, after a year of questioning al-Janabi, national intelligence estimate cautiously noted that 'new intelligence' had caused US intelligence 'to adjust our assessment upward' and 'suggests Baghdad has expanded' its bio-weapons programme. The emergence of Rafid Ahman Alwan al-Janabi as a 'source' was exactly what the White House was looking for. It is important to understand that al-Janabi had been directly assisted in building a new life in Germany by an organisation known as the Iraqi National Congress, a network of Kurds, Shia and Sunnis who wanted Saddam ousted. They were closely connected to hawks in the US administration, the neocons such as Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the Pentagon advisor Richard Perle, known to his adversaries as the Prince of Darkness. By 1995 a new team was in charge of the CIA's Iraqi Operations Group and they severed the agency's relationship with Rendon altogether.
