During the opening days of the Gulf War in January 1991, Simon and his CBS News team were captured by Iraqi forces and spent 40 days in an Iraqi prison, most of it in solitary confinement.
1991年1月波斯灣戰爭開戰不久，西蒙和他的CBS新聞團隊被伊拉克軍隊俘虜，並在該國監獄關押40天，其中大部份被單獨監禁。