Secret History of the Iraq War by Yossef Bodansky







Secret History of the Iraq War by Yossef Bodansky (Author)

Publisher: Regan Books (June 15, 2004) | ISBN-10: 0060736798 | linked PNG-files | 44 Mb | 576 pages



In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady
victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United
States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq. Eight months
after the president declared an end to major combat operations, Saddam
Hussein was captured in a farmhouse in Al-Dawr. And yet neither peace
nor democracy has taken hold in Iraq; instead the country has plunged
into terrorist insurgency and guerrilla warfare, with no end in sight.
What went wrong?



In The Secret History of the Iraq War, bestselling author Yossef
Bodansky offers an astonishing new account of the war and its aftermath
-- a war that was doomed from the start, he argues, by the massive and
systemic failures of the American intelligence community. Drawing back
the curtain of politicized debate, Bodansky -- a longtime expert and
director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and
Unconventional Warfare -- reveals that nearly every aspect of America's
conflict with Iraq has been misunderstood, in both the court of public
opinion and the White House itself. Among his revelations:

— The most authoritative account of Saddam Hussein's support for
Islamic terrorist organizations -- including extensive new reporting on
his active cooperation with al-Qaeda in Iraq long after the fall of
Baghdad — Extensive new information on Iraq's major chemical and
biological weapons programs -- including North Korea's role in building
still-undetected secret storage facilities and Iraq's transfer of
banned materials to Syria, Iran, and Libya — The first account of
Saddam's plan for Iraq, Syria, and Iran to join Yasser Arafat's
Palestinian forces to attack Israel, throw the region into turmoil, and
upend the American campaign — The untold story of Russia's attempt to
launch a coup against Saddam before the war -- and how the CIA thwarted
it by ensuring that Iraq was forewarned — Dramatic details about
Saddam's final days on the run, including the untold story of a near
miss with U.S. troops and the stunning revelation that Saddam was
already in custody at the time of his capture -- and was probably
betrayed by members of his own Tikriti clan — The definitive account of
the anti-U.S. resistance and uprising in Iraq, as the American invasion
ignited an Islamic jihad and Iran-inspired intifada, threatening to
plunge the region into irreversible chaos fueled by hatred and revenge
— Revelations about the direct involvement of Osama bin Laden in the
terrorism campaigns in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the Middle
East -- including the major role played by Iran and HizbAllah in
al-Qaeda's operations

Drawing upon an extraordinary wealth of previously untapped
intelligence and regional sources, The Secret History of the Iraq War
presents the most detailed, fascinating, and convincing account of the
most controversial war of our times -- and offers a sobering indictment
of an intelligence system that failed the White House, the American
military, and the people of the Middle East.

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