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Chain of command, the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, Seymour M. Hersh

Label
Chain of command, the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, Seymour M. Hersh
Language
eng
Illustrations
maps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Chain of command
Oclc number
56496381
Responsibility statement
Seymour M. Hersh
Sub title
the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
Table Of Contents
pt. 1. Torture at Abu-Ghraib. A Guantánamo problem -- Photographs from a prison -- Crossing the line -- The gray zone -- pt. 2. Intelligence failure. How America's spies missed September 11th -- Why the government didn't know what it knew -- The twentieth man -- pt. 3. The other war. Afghanistan's secret battles -- The getaway -- A power base of warlords -- pt. 4. The Iraq hawks. The early fight to take on Saddam -- Getting closer -- Richard Perle goes to lunch -- pt. 5. Who lied to whom? March 2003, "These documents ... are in fact not authentic" -- Into the intelligence stovepipe -- Behind the "mushroom cloud" -- pt. 6. The secretary and the generals. The battle for Baghdad -- Manhunts -- Targeting the insurgency -- pt. 7. A most dangerous friend. Gambling on Musharraf -- The ultimate black market -- Washington's deal -- pt. 8. 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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