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100 1 _aHersh, Seymour M.
245 1 0 _aChain of command :
_bthe road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib /
_cSeymour M. Hersh.
250 _a1st Harper Perennial ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarper Perennial,
_cc2005.
300 _axix, 404, 16 p.:
_bmaps ;
_c21 cm.
500 _a"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.
500 _a"Portions of this book were previously published, in somewhat different form, in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _apt. 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.
650 0 _aIraq War, 2003-2011
_xPrisoners and prisons, American.
610 2 0 _aAbu Ghraib Prison.
650 0 _aIraq War, 2003-2011
_xAtrocities.
650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_xAbuse of
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_xLegal status, laws, etc.
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aTerrorism
_xGovernment policy
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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526 _blaw