The Iraqi defector "Curve Ball" | 60 Minutes Archive
As the U.S. concludes anti-ISIS operations in Iraq, a 60 Minutes archive segment revisits the case of 'Curve Ball,' an Iraqi defector whose false intelligence helped justify the 2003 invasion.
The U.S. military has declared an end to its Iraq-based anti-ISIS operation, more than 20 years after initially invading the country to oust then-President Saddam Hussein. Back in 2011, Bob Simon interviewed the Iraqi defector code-named "Curve Ball," whose false tale of a mobile, biological weapons program was the chief justification for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. "Telling the truth is not for me," Curve Ball told Simon.
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