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The CIA War in Kurdistan - The Untold Story of the Northern Front in the Iraq War (Hardcover)
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The CIA War in Kurdistan - The Untold Story of the Northern Front in the Iraq War (Hardcover)
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In early 2002 Sam Faddis was named to head a CIA team that would
enter Iraq, prepare the battlefield and facilitate the entry of
follow-on conventional military forces numbering in excess of
40,000 American soldiers. This force, built around the 4th Infantry
Division would, in partnership with Kurdish forces and with the
assistance of Turkey, engage Saddam's army in the north as part of
a coming invasion. Faddis expected to be on the ground inside Iraq
within weeks and that the entire campaign would likely be over by
summer. Over the next year virtually every aspect of that plan for
the conduct of the war in Northern Iraq fell apart. The 4th
Infantry Division never arrived nor did any other conventional
forces in substantial number. The Turks not only did not provide
support, they worked overtime to prevent the U.S. from achieving
success. An Arab army that was to assist U.S. forces fell apart
before it ever made it to the field. Alone, hopelessly outnumbered,
short on supplies and threatened by Iraqi assassination teams and
Islamic extremists Faddis' team, working with Kurdish peshmerga,
nonetheless paved the way for a brilliant and largely bloodless
victory in the north and the fall of Saddam's Iraq. That victory,
handed over to Washington and the Department of Defense on a silver
platter, was then squandered. The surrender of Iraqi forces in the
north was spurned. All existing governmental institutions were, in
the name of de-Baathification, dismantled. All input from Faddis'
team, which had been in country for almost a full year, was
ignored. The consequences of these actions were and continue to be
catastrophic. This is the story of an incredibly brave and
effective team of men and women who overcame massive odds and
helped end the nightmare of Saddam's rule in Iraq. It is also the
story of how incompetence, bureaucracy and ignorance threw that
success away and condemned Iraq and the surrounding region to
chaos.
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