{
  "id": 11004050,
  "title": "The Iraqi defector \"Curve Ball\" | 60 Minutes Archive",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/the-iraqi-defector-curve-ball-60-minutes-archive",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-30T17:23:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBS News",
    "slug": "cbs-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-iraqi-defector-curve-ball-60-minutes-archive/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}