| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xix, 394 pages: maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Portions of this book were previously published, in somewhat different form, in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso. |
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Maps on end papers. |
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Includes index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Prisoners and prisons, American.
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Abu Ghraib Prison.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Atrocities.
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Prisoners of war -- Abuse of -- United States.
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Prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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| ISBN |
0060195916 |
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