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: value: Golden age, 1944-1958; value: Chalabi in America, 1962-1968; value: Beirut, 1971-1977; value: Petra Bank, 1977; value: Iran and Shiism, 1977-1988; value: Business with Saddam, 1980-1989; value: The collapse of the Chalabi empire, 1989-1990; value: The fall of Ahmad Chalabi, 1989; value: Desert Storm, 1990-1991; value: Recruitment, 1991; value: Going after Jordon, 1992; value: The founding of the Iraqi National Congress : audit by burglary and little coffins, 1991-1992; value: IBC Communications : the funding, 1992; value: Conviction, 1992; value: Guerrilla warrior, 1993-1995; value: Victory in Hong Kong, 1995; value: Tossed out in the cold, 1996; value: Rising again : Ahmad Chalabi's allies, 1997; value: Wooing the neocons, 1997-1998; value: Frozen assets and the Iraq trust; value: Forming INDICT; value: Ahmad Chalabi's law, 1998; value: The money returns; value: BKSH : representing Chalabi; value: The uses of September 11, 2001; value: September 11; value: a new direction; value: Saddam's airline hijacking school; value: The case of the underground wells; value: David Rose, 2001-2003; value: The man who invented the mobile labs, March 2002; value: Saddam's mistress, September 2002; value: The run-up to war, summer 2002-winter 2003; value: The committee for the liberation of Iraq, autumn 2002; value: The free Iraqi forces and the end of the Iraq liberation act, summer 2003-winter 2003; value: The birth of de-baathification, summer 2002; value: There is oil in Iraq; value: Getting ready, winter 2003; value: Entering Iraq, April 2003; value: The dossiers, 2003; value: An armored truck and $250 million, April 2003; value: De-baathification, part II, 2003-2004; value: Chalabi vs. Bremer, May 2003-April 2004; value: The UN gets a warning, summer 2003; value: The State of the Union, January 2004; value: BKSH at war, 2003-2004; value: Banking in Iraq, summer-fall 2003; value: Chalabi under seige, May 2003; value: The Iran connection; value: Weapons of mass destruction; value: Almost at the top; value: Inside deal, 2005; value: The vote, 2005-2006; value: The rescue of the journalist, 2005; value: Epilogue.