How to break a terrorist
inding Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, had long been the U.S. military's top priority -- trumping even the search for Osama .. Lire la suite
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inding Abu Musab al
Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, had long been the U.S.
military's top priority -- trumping even the search for Osama bin Laden.
No brutality was spared in trying to squeeze intelligence from
Zarqawi's suspected associates. But these "force on force" techniques
yielded exactly nothing, and, in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, the
military rushed a new breed of interrogator to Iraq.
Matthew
Alexander, a former criminal investigator and head of a handpicked
interrogation team, gives us the first inside look at the U.S.
military's attempt at more civilized interrogation techniques -- and
their astounding success. The intelligence coup that enabled the June 7,
2006, air strike onZarqawi's rural safe house was the result of several
keenly strategized interrogations, none of which involved torture or
even "control" tactics.
Matthew and his team decided instead to
get to know their opponents. Who were these monsters? Who were they
working for? What were they trying to protect? Every day the "'gators"
matched wits with a rogues' gallery of suspects brought in by Special
Forces ("door kickers"): egomaniacs, bloodthirsty adolescents,
opportunistic stereo repairmen, Sunni clerics horrified by the sectarian
bloodbath, Al Qaeda fanatics, and good people in the wrong place at the
wrong time. With most prisoners, negotiation was possible and
psychological manipulation stunningly effective. But Matthew's
commitment to cracking the case with these methods sometimes isolated
his superiors and put his own career at risk.
This account is
an unputdownable thriller -- more of a psychological suspense story than
a war memoir. And indeed, the story reaches far past the current
conflict in Iraq with a reminder that we don't have to become our enemy
to defeat him. Matthew Alexander and his ilk, subtle enough and flexible
enough to adapt to the challenges of modern, asymmetrical warfare, have
proved to be our best weapons against terrorists all over the world.
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Ex Tax: 179,00 MAD
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Ex Tax: 213,00 MAD
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Ex Tax: 971,00 MAD
262,00 MAD
Ex Tax: 262,00 MAD