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Nov 20, 2005 · U.N. inspectors searched this now-abandoned grain-handling facility in Djerf al Nadaf, where Curveball had said he helped install equipment on trucks to make biological agents. On Feb. 8, 2003 ...
Mar 22, 2008 · "Curveball," writes spy-thriller author Frederick Forsyth, is responsible for the "biggest fiasco in the history of secret intelligence." Germany's BND is the agency responsible for this man.
Curveball (informant) Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi ( Arabic: رافد أحمد علوان الجنابي, Rāfid Aḥmad Alwān; born 1968), known by the Defense Intelligence Agency cryptonym " Curveball ", [1] is a German citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured ...
Jun 18, 2008 · 6-18-08. 'Curveball' speaks, and a reputation as a disinformation agent remains intact. Rafid Ahmed Alwan hoped for an easier life when he came here from Iraq nine years ago. He also hoped for a ...
Jul 10, 2014 · Earlier that day, in a spring-training game, Santiago, a 26-year-old southpaw from Newark in his fourth season, threw a screwball to the All-Star outfielder Carlos Gomez of the Milwaukee Brewers ...
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Apr 24, 2019 · For decades after Cummings’s last pitch, many people doubted the very notion that a ball could curve. It was a staple of baseball debate that the curveball just might be an optical illusion. A favorite exercise for skeptics was to challenge a pitcher to prove his powers by bending a ball around a series of poles. This happened a lot.
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Curveball. A diagram of a 12–6 curveball. In baseball and softball, the curveball is a type of pitch thrown with a characteristic grip and hand movement that imparts forward spin to the ball, causing it to dive as it approaches the plate. Varieties of curveball include the 12–6 curveball, power curveball, and the knuckle curve.
