Richard Bonin is a producer at 60 Minutes, working with Lesley Stahl. He has won five Emmys for his work, as well as an Overseas Press Club award for his reporting in Iraq. He is the author of Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War. Bonin lives in Washington, DC.
In 1958, Ahmad Chalabi’s wealthy Shiite family was exiled from Iraq after a revolution that ultimately put Saddam Hussein in power. The young Chalabi devoted his life to restoring his family to prominence. His first coup attempt was in 1963 at ...