How German Intelligence Helped Justify the US Invasion of Iraq

There is a wealth of information in this Spiegel article, and the accompanying ones, on the single flawed human source, Curveball, that helped shape the false narrative for the Iraq War.

It is interesting to find out that even countries who were apparently opposed to the Iraq war like Germany, have contributed to this war in a certain way, and even more than one might think. Was it payback time for Germany ? Well, I wonder if it won't be payback time for Germany all the way...And I wonder, and the article doesn't tell, which country Germany was paying back ???

Related: Uncritical Merkel gets red carpet treatment in Israel.

The FO successfully fought to keep secret any mention of Israel contained on the first draft of the controversial Iraq WMD dossier

The Information Tribunal, which adjudicates on disputes involving the Freedom of Information Act, agreed to remove the single reference to Israel when it ordered the release of the draft of the Iraqi weapons dossier written by John Williams, the FO's chief information officer at the time.

Along with unfavourable references to the US and Japan, the reference to Israel was written in the margin by someone commenting on the opening paragraph of the Williams draft. It was written against the claim that "no other country [apart from Iraq] has flouted the United Nations' authority so brazenly in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction".