the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib Hersh, Seymour M. creator text nyu New York Harper Perennial c2005 2005 1st Harper Perennial ed. monographic eng

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xix, 404, 16 p.: maps ; 21 cm. 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. Seymour M. Hersh. "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. Iraq War, 2003-2011 Prisoners and prisons, American Abu Ghraib Prison. Iraq War, 2003-2011 Atrocities Prisoners of war Abuse of United States Prisoners of war Legal status, laws, etc United States Terrorism Government policy United States War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 0060955376 BD-DhIUB 221014 20220701010744.0 00015842