# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/curveball
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:11:27.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/curveball"
name: "Curveball"
slug: "curveball"
description: "Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, known by the Defense Intelligence Agency cryptonym \"Curveball\", is a German-French citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program. Alwan's allegations were subsequently shown to be false by the Iraq Survey Group's final report published in 2004."
tagline: "Iraqi defector"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Powell_UN_Iraq_presentation%2C_alleged_Mobile_Production_Facilities.jpg/330px-Powell_UN_Iraq_presentation%2C_alleged_Mobile_Production_Facilities.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1968"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.78
  momentum:             0.1756954612005857
  historical:           9.125424
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(%E1%80%9E%E1%80%90%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%95%E1%80%B1%E1%80%B8)"
    title: "Curveball (သတင်းပေး)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AF_%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "رافد أحمد علوان الجنابي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "رافد احمد علوان الجنابى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)"
    title: "Curveball (informant)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafid_Ahmed_Alwan"
    title: "Rafid Ahmed Alwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)"
    title: "Curveball (informant)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafid_Ahmed_Alwan"
    title: "Rafid Ahmed Alwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "رافد احمد الوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball"
    title: "Curveball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafid_Ahmed_Alwan_al-Janabi"
    title: "Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafid_Ahmed_Alwan_al-Janabi"
    title: "Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44499"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump