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Nixon, John (Middle East expert)
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Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006 -- Imprisonment.
Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006 -- Last years.
Nixon, John (Middle East expert)
Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003-
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Nixon, John (Middle East expert)
Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006 -- Imprisonment.
Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006 -- Last years.
Nixon, John (Middle East expert)
Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003-
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Debriefing the president : the interrogation of Saddam Hussein / John Nixon
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Nixon, John (Middle East expert)
Call #:
956
.70443
N736d
Subjects
Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006 -- Imprisonment.
Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006 -- Last years.
Nixon, John (Middle East expert)
Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003-
ISBN:
9780399575815 (hc.)
Description:
242 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Prologue: unfinished business -- Holy shit, it's Saddam! -- Dare to be right -- Destination Baghdad -- Winging it -- Getting under Saddam's fingernails -- The Persian menace -- Turbans in politics -- Death to Shiites and Zionists -- Saddam blows his top -- Deep dive in the Oval Office -- Crosswise with the president -- In the shadow of his father -- The first draft of history -- Leaving with regrets -- Epilogue: a hanging in the middle of the night
Summary:
On the 10th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's execution, a revealing account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit. Beset by body-double rumors and false alarms during a nine-month search, the Bush administration needed positive identification of the prisoner before it could make the announcement that would rocket around the world. John Nixon was a senior CIA analyst who had spent years studying the Iraqi dictator. Called upon to make the official ID, Nixon looked for telltale scars and tribal tattoos and asked Hussein a list of questions only he could answer. The man was indeed Saddam Hussein, but as Nixon learned in the ensuing weeks, both he and America had greatly misunderstood just who Saddam Hussein really was. An astounding, candid portrait of one of our era's most notorious strongmen. Expert insight into the history and mind of America's most enigmatic enemy. After years of parsing Hussein's leadership from afar, Nixon recounts his debriefing sessions and subsequently strips away the mythology surrounding an equally brutal and complex man. His account is not an apology, but a sobering examination of how preconceived ideas led Washington policymakers - and the Bush White House - astray.
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