New Book Reveals Secret War Operations

[tocqueville]

8 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A new book on the government's secret anti-terrorism operations describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam Hussein's nuclear program.

Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA's behalf. The book said her brother was stunned by her questions about the nuclear program because — he said — it had been dead for a decade.

New York Times reporter James Risen uses the anecdote to illustrate how the CIA ignored information that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction. His book, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration" describes secret operations of the Bush administration's war on terrorism.

The major revelation in the book has already been the subject of extensive reporting by Risen's newspaper: the National Security Agency's eavesdropping of Americans' conversations without obtaining warrants from a special court.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060102/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_iraq

sorry if dupe, seems to be breaking

[stray cat]

1. Its suppose to be released Jan 3.

I never heard anything about the book - anybody have any idea as to the reliability of the author?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743270665/qid=1136241273/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-1925548-1492653?n=507846&s=books&v=glance

This is a previous book of his: The Main Enemy : The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB (Paperback)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345472500/qid=1136241440/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-1925548-1492653?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

The author has a Pulitzer Prize so it sounds promising.

Availability: This title will be released on January 3, 2006. You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

[znowboarding]

2. I just heard about this

I just heard about this book yesterday.... my brain is fried... I cant remember the source

[babylonsister]

3. I believe this is the book that inspired the NYT to break

the wiretapping story. I think Risen wanted to write about it over a year ago, and the Times put the kibosh on that. He writes a book and will scoop the Times unless they report it first.
I got that from DU somewhere.

[RamboLiberal]

4. Amazon has the release date as January 16th

I hope this author will be all over the airwaves.