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1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 56 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Eric Martin. |
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A startling spotlight on the darkest corners of America's "War on Terror," where nothing is quite what it seems. The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of Abu Zubaydah, the first "high-value target" captured by the CIA after 9/11. But was Abu Zubaydah, who is still being indefinitely held by the United States under shadowy circumstances, the blue-ribbon capture that the Bush White House claimed he was? Authors John Kiriakou, who led the capture of Zubaydah, and Joseph Hickman, who took custody of him at Guantanamo, draw a far more complex and intriguing portrait of the al-Qaeda "mastermind" who became a symbol of torture and the "dark side" of US security. From a one-time American collaborator to a poster boy for waterboarding, Abu Zubaydah became a "convenient terrorist"-a way for US authorities to sell their "War on Terror" to the American people. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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ʻAbd al-Majīd, Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn Muḥammad Ḥusayn.
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Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
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United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
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Detention of unlawful combatants -- United States.
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Military interrogation -- United States.
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Torture -- Government policy -- United States.
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Prisoners of war -- Abuse of -- United States.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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Intelligence service -- United States -- Evaluation.
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Kiriakou, John, author.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781518952722 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1518952720 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT11926503 |
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