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Chain of command : the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
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- Creator
- Seymour M. Hersh
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Harper Perennial edition
- New York : Harper Perennial, 2005
- Physical Details
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- xix, 404 pages, 16 pages: maps ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0060955376, 9780060955373
- OCLC
- ocm61227144
- "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