{"id":4206,"date":"2004-07-16T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2021-03-22T07:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:41:51","slug":"iraqi-fabricator-who-passed-polygraph-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/16\/iraqi-fabricator-who-passed-polygraph-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Fabricator Who Passed Polygraph Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>The Iraqi fabricator who provided false information that Iraq possessed mobile biological warfare laboratories and was believed in part because he had passed a polygraph &#8220;test&#8221; has been publicly identified as <strong>Major Mohammad Harith.<\/strong> Secretary of State Colin Powell used Harith&#8217;s bogus information in an attempt to justify the planned invasion of Iraq in a pre-war speech before the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knight Ridder reporters Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel disclose Harith&#8217;s identity in an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040810093307\/http:\/\/www.realcities.com\/mld\/krwashington\/9165361.htm\">&#8220;Former CIA director used Pentagon ties to introduce Iraqi defector.&#8221;<\/a> For discussion, see the AntiPolygraph.org message board thread, <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/YaBB.pl?num=1076052913\">Iraqi Fabricator Passed Polygraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi fabricator who provided false information that Iraq possessed mobile biological warfare laboratories and was believed in part because he had passed a polygraph &#8220;test&#8221; has been publicly identified as Major Mohammad Harith. Secretary of State Colin Powell used Harith&#8217;s bogus information in an attempt to justify the planned invasion of Iraq in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,520,521],"class_list":{"0":"post-4206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-iraq","8":"tag-mohammad-harith","9":"tag-521","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}