TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hersh,Seymour M.
TI  - Chain of command: the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib 
SN  - 0060955376
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper Perennial
KW  - Abu Ghraib Prison
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Prisoners and prisons, American
KW  - Atrocities
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - Abuse of
KW  - United States
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Government policy
KW  - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
N1  - "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; law
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