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Author Cockburn, Andrew.

Title Out of the ashes : the resurrection of Saddam Hussein / Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn.

Publication Info. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [1999]
©1999

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  956.7044 COCKBURN    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  956.7 C    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  956.704 COC    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  956.7044 C64    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 322 pages : map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-309) and index.
Contents "Drawing on the authors' firsthand experiences on the ground inside Iraq (often under fire) and their interviews with key players - ranging from members of Saddam's own family to senior officials of the CIA - Out of the Ashes tells what happened when the smoke cleared from the battlefields of the Gulf War. Leaders of the uprising that almost toppled the dictator describe the desperate mission they undertook to plead for American help and how they were turned away. We learn of Saddam's secret plan to fool and corrupt the UN weapons inspectors and how the scheme initially went awry. Senior U.S. intelligence officials explain what they really thought of the Iraqi opposition movement they helped to create. An agent on the CIA payroll recounts his exploits planting bombs in Baghdad." "While U.S. officials grappled with the ongoing crisis of Saddam's survival, the Iraqi leader himself presided over a regime dominated by his own terrifying family. Here is the full story of that family - "animals," as one former intimate describes them - and its vicious feuds, including the downfall of the man who once stood at Saddam's right hand."--Jacket.
Subject Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Iraq -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Undercover operations -- Iraq.
Intelligence service -- United States.
Iraq -- Kings and rulers.
Iraq -- Politics and government.
Added Author Cockburn, Patrick, 1950-
ISBN 0060192666
9780060192662
0788198726
9780788198724
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