Father of money
Subtitle: buying peace in Baghdad
By: Jason Whiteley
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781597975445
Subjects: American Personal narratives; Civil-military relations; Postwar reconstruction; Iraq War, 2003-
Description: "In March 2004, Capt. Jason Whiteley was appointed the governance officer for Al Dora, one of Baghdad's most violent districts. His job was to establish and oversee a council structure for Iraqis that would allow them to begin governing themselves. The nature of persuading Iraqis to support the coalition quickly progressed from simply granting them privileges to ignore curfews to a more complex relationship defined by illicit dealing, preferential treatment, and a vicious cycle of assassination attempts. In these streets of Al Dora, Whiteley was feared and loved as the man they called Abu Floos-or "Father of Money.""Father of Money" is the story of Captain Whiteley's journey into a moral morass, where bribes and blood money, not principle, governed the dissemination of power and possibility of survival."--Booksamillion.com.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Heavy business; title: Bullets and bedouins; title: Learning from the masters; title: Sitting in judgment; title: Banners and uprisings; title: Tea with terrorists; title: Money by the barrel; title: Allegiance; title: New arrivals; title: Fighting and fasting; title: Ballots and banality; title: Epilogue.