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The War
Profiteers - War Crimes, Kidnappings, Torture and Big Money |
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CBS/60 Minutes Documentary on “Curveball” |
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Background - Broadcast from
November 1st, 2007 “Did Saddam Hussein have weapons of mass destruction? No, he did not.
We’ve known that for some time now. So where did the intelligence come from
that he was building up his arsenal? Fantastically, the most compelling part
came from one obscure Iraqi defector who came in and out of history like a
comet. His code name, ironically, was ‘Curve Ball’ and his information became
the pillar of the case Colin Powell made to the United Nations before the
war. Who is Curve Ball and how did he fool the world’s elite intelligence
agencies? 60 Minutes spent two years, and traveled to nine countries, trying
to solve the mystery. We talked to intelligence sources, to people who knew
Curve Ball and to people who worked with him. […]” Excerpt of CBS/60 Minutes transcript from
November 4th, 2007. |
“Curveball” aka Rafid Ahmed Alwan in 1993 |
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The Video |
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External view: link file format: .flv (49,3 MB) |
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File photo of “Curveball” |
Former CIA director George Tenet |
Letter by German intelligence chief |
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Video Credits Background and Screenshots The television documentary on “Curveball” was produced by Draggan
Mihailovich for CBS/60 Minutes. It was aired on November 1st, 2007
in the United States. The transcript was published on the Internet on
November 4th, 2007. CBS Interactive Inc. owns the copyrights for
the video. |
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