The man who pushed America to war
Subtitle: the extraordinary life, adventures, and obsessions of Ahmed Chalabi
By: Aram Roston.
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781568583532
Subjects: Chalabi, Ahmad, -- 1944-; Shiites -- Iraq -- Biography.; Statesmen -- Iraq -- Biography.; Iraq War, 2003-; Iraq -- Politics and government -- 1991-2003.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-360) and index.
Table of contents: title: Golden age, 1944-1958; title: Chalabi in America, 1962-1968; title: Beirut, 1971-1977; title: Petra Bank, 1977; title: Iran and Shiism, 1978-1988; title: Business with Saddam, 1980-1989; title: The collapse of the Chalabi empire, 1989-1990; title: The fall of Ahmad Chalabi, 1989; title: Desert Storm, 1990-1991; title: Recruitment, 1991; title: Going after Jordon, 1992; title: The founding of the Iraqi National Congress : audit by burglary and little coffins, 1991-1992; title: IBC Communications : the funding, 1992; title: Conviction, 1992; title: Guerrilla warrior, 1993-1995; title: Victory in Hong Kong, 1995; title: Tossed out in the cold, 1996; title: Rising again : Ahmad Chalabi's allies, 1997; title: Wooing the neocons, 1997-1998; title: Frozen assets and the Iraq trust; title: Forming INDICT; title: Ahmad Chalabi's law, 1998; title: The money returns; title: BKSH : representing Chalabi; title: The uses of September 11, 2001; title: September 11; title: a new direction; title: Saddam's airline hijacking school; title: The case of the underground wells; title: David Rose, 2001-2003; title: The man who invented the mobile labs, March 2002; title: Saddam's mistress, September 2002; title: The run-up to war, summer 2002-winter 2003; title: The committee for the liberation of Iraq, autumn 2002; title: The free Iraqi forces and the end of the Iraq liberation act, summer 2003-winter 2003; title: The birth of de-baathification, summer 2002; title: There is oil in Iraq; title: Getting ready, winter 2003; title: Entering Iraq, April 2003; title: The dossiers, 2003; title: An armored truck and $250 million, April 2003; title: De-baathification, part II, 2003-2004; title: Chalabi vs. Bremer, May 2003-April 2004; title: The UN gets a warning, summer 2003; title: The State of the Union, January 2004; title: BKSH at war, 2003-2004; title: Banking in Iraq, summer-fall 2003; title: Chalabi under seige, May 2003; title: The Iran connection; title: Weapons of mass destruction; title: Almost at the top; title: Inside deal, 2005; title: The vote, 2005-2006; title: The rescue of the journalist, 2005; title: Epilogue.