Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
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Overview
Now also an Oscar-nominated documentary
In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies.
Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA's Special Activities Division and the Joint Special Operations Command ( JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries. Funded through "black budgets," Special Operations Forces conduct missions in denied areas, engage in targeted killings, snatch and grab individuals and direct drone, AC-130 and cruise missile strikes. While the Bush administration deployed these ghost militias, President Barack Obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy.
Dirty Wars follows the consequences of the declaration that "the world is a battlefield," as Scahill uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, Scahill reports from the frontlines in this high-stakes investigation and explores the depths of America's global killing machine. He goes beneath the surface of these covert wars, conducted in the shadows, outside the range of the press, without effective congressional oversight or public debate. And, based on unprecedented access, Scahill tells the chilling story of an American citizen marked for assassination by his own government.
As US leaders draw the country deeper into conflicts across the globe, setting the world stage for enormous destabilization and blowback, Americans are not only at greater risk we are changing as a nation. Scahill unmasks the shadow warriors who prosecute these secret wars and puts a human face on the casualties of unaccountable violence that is now official policy: victims of night raids, secret prisons, cruise missile attacks and drone strikes, and whole classes of people branded as "suspected militants." Through his brave reporting, Scahill exposes the true nature of the dirty wars the United States government struggles to keep hidden.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781470843052 |
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Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
Publication date: | 04/28/2013 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 7.30(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
A Note to the Reader xxiii
Prologue 1
1 "There Was Concern… That We Not Create an American Hit List" Washington, DC, 2001-2002 3
2 Anwar Awlaki: An American Story: The United States and Yemen, 1971-2002 31
3 Find, Fix, Finish: The Rise of JSOC Washington, DC, 1979-2001 48
4 The Boss: Ali Abdullah Saleh: Yemen, 1970-2001; Washington, DC, 2001 61
5 The Enigma of Anwar Awlaki: The United Kingdom, the United States and Yemen, 2002-2O03 67
6 "We're in a New Kind of War" Djibouti, Washington, Dc, and Yemen, 2002 75
7 Special Plans: Washington, DC, 2002 81
8 Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape Washington, DC, 2002-2003 85
9 The Troublemaker: Stanley McChrystal The United States, 1974-2003; Iraq, 2003 102
10 "Their Intention and Our Intention Is the Same" Somalia, 1993-2004 118
11 "A Defeated Enemy Is Not a Vanquished One" Yemen, 2003-2006 130
12 "Never Trust a Nonbeliever" The United Kingdom, 2003 134
13 "You Don't Have to Prove to Anyone That You Did Right" Iraq, 2003-2005 138
14 "No Blood, No Foul" Iraq, 2003-2004 147
15 The Death Star Iraq, 2004 162
16 "The Best Technology, the Best Weapons, the Best People- and Plenty of Money to Burn" Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, 2003-2006 167
17 "A Lot of It Was of Questionable Legality" Source: "Hunter" 180
18 The Imprisonment of Anwar Awlaki Yemen, 2004-2007 184
19 "America Knows War. They Are War Masters." Somalia, 2004-2006 191
20 Prison Break Yemen, 2006 210
21 Hot Pursuit Pakistan, 2006-2008 215
22 "Every Step Taken by the US Benefited al Shabab" Somalia, 2007-2009 219
23 "If Your Son Does Not Come to Us, He Will Be Killed by the Americans" Yemen, 2007-2009 230
24 "Obama Is Set to Continue the Course Set by Bush" The United States, 2002-2008 244
25 Obama's Signature Strikes Pakistan and Washington, DC, 2009 248
26 Special Ops Want to "Own This Shit Like They Did in Central America in the '80s" Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2009 254
27 Suicide or Martyrdom? Yemen, 2009 264
28 Obama Embraces JSOC Somalia, Early 2009 270
29 "Let JSOC Off the Leash" Saudi Arabia, Washington, Dc, and Yemen, Late 2009 278
30 Samir Khan: An Unlikely Foot Soldier The United States and Yemen, 2001-2009 285
31 Blowback in Somalia Somalia and Washington, DC, 2009 294
32 "If They Kill Innocent Children and Call Them al Qaeda, Then We Are All al Qaeda" Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2009 303
33 "The Americans Really Wanted to Kill Anwar" Yemen, Late 2009-Early 2010 314
34 "Mr. Barack Obama…I Hope That You Reconsider Your Order to Kill…My Son" Washington, DC, and Yemen, Early 2010 325
35 One Night in Gardez Washington, DC, 2008-2010; Afghanistan, 2009-2010 328
36 The Year of the Drone Yemen and the United States, 2010 350
37 Driving Anwar Awlaki to Hell Yemen, 2010 356
38 The CIA's Dating Service Denmark and Yemen, 2010 364
39 "The Auction of the Assassin" Washington, DC, 2010 367
40 "Martyrdom Is Why We Came Here, My Brother" Yemen, 2009-2010 375
41 The Persecution of Abdulelah Haider Shaye Yemen, Summer 2010 382
42 The President Can Write His Own Rules Washington, DC, and Yemen, Late 2010 386
43 Al Qaeda's "Foothold in Somalia Has Probably Been Facilitated" Somalia, 2010 393
44 "Anwar Awlaki… Definitely Has a Missile in His Future" Yemen, 2011 395
45 The Curious Case of Raymond Davis: Act I Pakistan, 2011 403
46 The Curious Case of Raymond Davis: Act II Pakistan, 2011 141
47 The Tsunami of Change Austria and Yemen, 2011 430
48 The Fortress in Abbottabad Washington, DC, 2010-2011; Pakistan, 2011 434
49 "We Got Him. We Got Him." Pakistan, 2011 444
50 "Now They're After My Son" Somalia, Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2011 451
51 "It Was Cold-Blooded" Pakistan, 2011 458
52 "The US Sees al Qaeda as Terrorism, and We Consider the Drones Terrorism" Yemen, Late 2011 460
53 The Pink House Washington, DC, and Somalia, 2011 469
54 "Total Savagery Throughout the Country" Somalia, 2011 487
55 Abdurrahman Vanishes Yemen, 2011 495
56 Hellfire Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2011 498
57 Paying for the Sins of the Father Washington, DC, and Yemen, 2011 507
Epilogue: Perpetual War 513
Acknowledgments 523
Acronyms and Abbreviations 529
Notes 531
Index 615