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The Achilles trap Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the origins of America's invasion of Iraq

"From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the gr...

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Main Author: Coll, Steve (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2024.
Subjects:
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
Hussein, Saddam, > 1937-2006.
United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009.
Iraq > Politics and government > 2003-
United States > Foreign relations > Iraq.
Iraq > Foreign relations > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • The physicist and the dictator
  • A spy bearing gifts
  • A man and the city
  • Ambassadors of cynicism
  • Department 3000
  • A conspiracy foretold
  • Druid leader
  • 'Who is going to say anything?'
  • Prodigal son
  • Project 17
  • Crash programs
  • 'The situation is under excellent control'
  • Iraqi spring
  • The liar's truths
  • Mr. Max and the mayfair swindler
  • 'We need to turn this thing off, now!'
  • 'There would be a bloodbath'
  • Honor among tyrants
  • Spy v. spy
  • Crime and punishment
  • The logic of illusion
  • The secret garden
  • The pundit
  • Cold pitch
  • Cracked mirrors
  • 'Do we have WMD?'
  • The edge of the abyss.

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