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Curve Ball

This is Rafid Ahmed Alwan, better known as Curveball, getting down at an Iraqi wedding in 1993.

The 60 Minutes segment tonight, if you saw it after the Patriots-Colts game, was a fine introduction to Curveball and that damned wall.

But for the gory detail, I highly recommend Bob Drogin’s new book, Curveball: Spies, Lies and the Con Man Who Caused A War.

I am about 1/3 of the way through and its is pretty much awesome.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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