Chain of command
Subtitle: the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
By: Seymour M. Hersh
Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780060955373
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Abu Ghraib (Prison); American Prisoners and prisons; Prisonniers et prisons des Américains; Guerre en Irak, 2003-; Abuse of; Terrorisme; Terrorism; Abu Ghraib Prison; Iraq War, 2003-; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Atrocités; Government policy; Guerra; Opération Liberté immuable, 2001-; Prisonniers de guerre; Violence envers les Prisonniers de guerre; Droit; Politique gouvernementale; Atrocities; Legal status, laws
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Torture at Abu-Ghraib. A Guantánamo problem; title: Photographs from a prison; title: Crossing the line; title: The gray zone; title: pt. 2. Intelligence failure. How America's spies missed September 11th; title: Why the government didn't know what it knew; title: The twentieth man; title: pt. 3. The other war. Afghanistan's secret battles; title: The getaway; title: A power base of warlords; title: pt. 4. The Iraq hawks. The early fight to take on Saddam; title: Getting closer; title: Richard Perle goes to lunch; title: pt. 5. Who lied to whom? March 2003, "These documents ... are in fact not authentic"; title: Into the intelligence stovepipe; title: Behind the "mushroom cloud"; title: pt. 6. The secretary and the generals. Driving to Baghdad; title: Manhunts; title: Targeting the insurgency; title: pt. 7. A most dangerous friend. Gambling on Musharraf; title: The ultimate black market; title: Washington's deal; title: pt. 8. The Middle East after 9/11. Saudi Arabia: corruption and compromise; title: Syria: a lost opportunity; title: Iran: the next nuclear power?; title: Israel, Turkey, and the Kurds.