Infernal triangle Conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Levant ; eyewitness reports from the September 11 decade

Paul McGeough, 1954-

Book - 2011

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  • Prologue People are Crying in the Streets
  • Afghanistan
  • The Future for Afghanistan's Women
  • Dust to Dust
  • Seeds of Destruction
  • Nation-Building at Gunpoint
  • The Seven-Year Stitch
  • A Woman's Lot
  • Whisker From Oblivion
  • Doing the Bidding of Organised Crime
  • The Road to Perdition
  • New Road Paved with Promises and Projects
  • Afghan Insurgency Given New Life by Their Enemies
  • Iraq
  • The Devils They Knew
  • Baghdad Without a Map
  • The Men Who Rule Iraq
  • The Blood Koran
  • The Bush Doctrine Turned on Its Head
  • The Making of a Monster
  • Seduction of an Unwitting Suicide Bomber
  • The Unknown Zarqawi Legacy
  • The Judas Kiss
  • Mission Failed
  • Iraqi Justice
  • Three Into One Proves an Odd Fit
  • The Oil Gusher
  • The Levant
  • The Matza Bomb
  • Guided Missiles
  • Marked Men
  • Deep in the Heart of Lebanon
  • Waves of Despair
  • On the Verge of Civil War
  • The Man Who Wouldn't Die
  • The Free Gaza Flotilla
  • Controlling the Narrative in Israel and Palestine
  • Afterword: Al-Qaeda Lost on the Arab Street
  • Acknowledgements
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

War correspondent McGeough (In Baghdad: A Reporter's War) shares his dispatches, observations, and reflections from the front lines as he speaks with perpetrators and victims of suicide bombings, ruthless militia commanders, venal public officials, and civilians whose lives have been shaken by the conflict that surrounds them in the Middle East. Each vignette spans just a few pages, compassionately encapsulating the human dramas like dots in a pointillist portrait-intimately personal and yet inextricably tied to the sweeping arcs of geopolitics. Some, like McGeough's investigations of Khalid Mishal or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, touch on subjects of great political import, while most draw lessons from the lives of bit players in a cast of half a billion, each beset by the "paranoia, frustration, anger and helplessness [that] gnaw at people who every day become a little less like people." This relentless parade of tragedies makes for compelling reading, but risks missing the deeper trends affecting the region. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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