Chain of command : the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

Hersh, Seymour M. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780060195915
ISBN: 0060195916
Physical Description: print
xix, 394 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, c2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Maps on end papers.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.