How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq (Signed)
Alexander, Matthew; Bruning, John
Language: English
Published by Free Press, 2008
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- Hardcover
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Inscribed by Matthew Alexander on title page. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author.* A U.S. military interrogator describes his work in Iraq and his innovative approach that replaces torture with empathy, a procedure that he used to gain the intelligence information required to bring down Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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- Title
- How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq (Signed)
- Author
- Alexander, Matthew; Bruning, John
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Like New
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1416573151
- ISBN 13
- 9781416573159
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 14 ounces
- Dimensions
- 5x1x8
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- Middle Eastern History
The interrogator's job is simple: get the right information in a timely fashion. Finding Abu Musab Zarqawi had long been the US military's top priority--even trumping the search for Osama Bin Laden. No brutality was spared in trying to squeeze information from detainees. But when the Military brought in Matthew the exertions of Special Forces had yielded exactly nothing.
So Matthew and his team decided to sit down and get to know their opponents. Who were these monsters so impervious to violence? Who were they fighting for? What were they trying to protect? The intelligence coup that enabled the June 7, 2006 air strike on Zarqawi's rural safe house northeast of Baghdad was the result of a painstaking and dramatic manhunt, but it was not the result of what Matthew calls "force on force" interactions.
First featured in an Atlanticcover story by Mark Bowden, this is more of a true-crime or psychological suspense story than a war memoir.
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About the Author
John R. Bruning is a prolific military and aviation historian who is the author and collaborator of many bestselling books.
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