Chain of command : the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib / Seymour M. Hersh.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Harper Perennial, c2005.Edition: 1st Harper Perennial edDescription: xix, 404, 16 p.: maps ; 21 cmSubject(s):Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) IMT Shelves (Level 4) | 973.931 H5722c 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 01 | Not For Loan | 022129 |
"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.
"Portions of this book were previously published, in somewhat different form, in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
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. Driving to 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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