Chain of command : the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
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- ISBN: 0060195916
- ISBN: 9780060195915
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Physical Description:
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xix, 394 pages : maps ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, [2004]
- Copyright: ©2004
Contents / Notes
General Note: | "Portions of this book were previously published, in somewhat different form, in The New Yorker"--Title page verso. Maps on end papers. Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | I. Torture at Abu-Ghraib. A Guantánamo problem ; Photographs from a prison ; Crossing the line ; The gray zone -- II. Intelligence failure. How America's spies missed September 11th ; Why the government didn't know what it knew ; The twentieth man -- III. The other war. Afghanistan's secret battles ; The getaway ; A power base of warlords -- IV. The Iraq hawks. The early fight to take on Saddam ; Getting closer ; Richard Perle goes to lunch -- V. Who lied to whom? March 2003: "These documents ... are in fact not authentic" ; Into the intelligence stovepipe ; Behind the "mushroom cloud" -- VI. The secretary and the generals. The battle for Baghdad ; Manhunts ; Targeting the insurgency -- VII. A most dangerous friend. Gambling on Musharraf ; The ultimate black market ; Washington's deal -- VIII. The Middle East after 9/11. Saudi Arabia: corruption and compromise ; Syria: a lost opportunity ; Iran: the next nuclear power? ; Israel, Turkey, and the Kurds. |
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