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Some argued it would save the U.S. after 9/11. Instead, the CIA’s
enhanced interrogation program came to be defined as American
torture. The Forever Prisoner, a primary source for the recent HBO
Max film directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, exposes the
full story behind the most divisive CIA operation in living memory.
Six months after 9/11, the CIA captured Abu Zubaydah and announced
he was number three in Al Qaeda. Frantic to thwart a
much-feared second wave of attacks, the U.S. rendered him to a
secret black site in Thailand, where he collided with retired Air
Force psychologist James Mitchell. Arguing that Abu Zubaydah had
been trained to resist interrogation and was withholding vital
clues, the CIA authorized Mitchell and others to use brutal
“enhanced interrogation techniques” that would have violated
U.S. and international laws had not government lawyers rewritten
the rulebook. In The Forever Prisoner, Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian
Levy recount dramatic scenes inside multiple black sites around the
world through the eyes of those who were there, trace the twisted
legal justifications, and chart how enhanced interrogation, a key
“weapon” in the global “War on Terror,” metastasized over
seven years, encompassing dozens of detainees in multiple
locations, some of whom died. Ultimately that war has cost 8
trillion dollars, 900,000 lives, and displaced 38 million
people—while the U.S. Senate judged enhanced interrogation was
torture and had produced zero high-value intelligence. Yet numerous
men, including Abu Zubaydah, remain imprisoned in Guantanamo, never
charged with any crimes, in contravention of America’s ideals of
justice and due process, because their trials would reveal the
extreme brutality they experienced. Based on four years of
intensive reporting, on interviews with key protagonists who speak
candidly for the first time, and on thousands of previously
classified documents, The Forever Prisoner is a powerful chronicle
of a shocking experiment that remains in the headlines twenty years
after its inception, even as US government officials continue to
thwart efforts to expose war crimes. Silenced by a CIA pledge to
keep him imprisoned and incommunicado forever, Abu Zubaydah speaks
loudly through these pages, prompting the question as to whether he
and others remain detained not because of what they did to us but
because of what we did to them.
The extraordinary inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in
the years after 9/11. Following the attacks on the Twin Towers,
Osama bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, eluded
intelligence services and Special Forces units for almost a decade.
Using remarkable, first-person testimony from bin Laden's family
and closest aides, The Exile chronicles this astonishing tale of
evasion, collusion and isolation. In intimate detail, The Exile
reveals not only the frantic attack on Afghanistan by the United
States in their hunt for bin Laden but also how and why, when they
found his family soon after, the Bush administration rejected the
chance to seize them. It charts the formation of ISIS, and uncovers
the wasted opportunity to kill its Al Qaeda-sponsored founder; it
explores the development of the CIA's torture programme; it details
Iran's secret shelter for bin Laden's family and Al Qaeda's
military council; and it captures the power struggles, paranoia and
claustrophobia within the Abbottabad house prior to the raid. A
landmark work of investigation and reportage, The Exile is as
authoritative as it is compelling, and essential reading for anyone
concerned with history, security and future relations with the
Islamic world.
In the page-turning tradition of "Black Hawk Down," the definitive
account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai
Mumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba
terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj
Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world's most exclusive luxury
hotels. For sixty-eight hours, hundreds were held hostage as shots
rang out and an enormous fire raged. When the smoke cleared,
thirty-one people were dead and many more had been injured. Only
the courageous actions of staff and guests--including Mallika
Jagad, Bob Nichols, and Taj general manager Binny Kang--prevented a
much higher death toll.
With a deep understanding of the region and its politics and a
narrative flair reminiscent of "Midnight in Peking," journalists
Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy vividly unfold the tragic events
in a real-life thriller filled with suspense, tragedy, history, and
heroism.
On 26th November 2008 the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai is besieged by Pakistani Islamists, armed with explosives and machine guns. For three days, guests and staff of the hotel are trapped as the terrorists run amok. On 29th November commandos launch Operation Black Tornado. The world holds its breath.
The Siege is a helter-skelter thriller, threaded with powerful human stories. By turns tragic and heroic, the events are told through a cast of real characters, who were thrown together in the luxurious, century-old Taj: waiters, chefs, captains of industry, hedge funders, celebrities, tourists, policemen, special forces and terrorists.
For the first time, this astonishing book takes us through the news footage and into the heart of the hotel. Each hostage has a choice: hide, run or fight. What would you do?
The Handbook of Health Services Research is a reference for all
aspects of the field of health services and outcomes research. It
addresses the increasing need for comprehensive, yet balanced,
information in a field that welcomes various disciplines: medicine,
public health, statistics, economics, management, policy, and
information technology. This well-organized reference is an
indispensable source of information for everyone who seeks to
develop understanding of health systems and to learn about
historical, political, and socioeconomic factors that influence
health policies at the global, national, regional and local level.
Specifically, the Handbook helps readers: Recognize core concepts
of health services and outcomes research, such as, need, access,
equity, quality and safety; Become familiar with social, political,
organizational, behavioral and economic theories that have
influenced health systems designs; Learn about frameworks developed
for evaluating the organization, financing, delivery, utilization
and outcomes of health services; Get an introduction to methods of
comparative effectiveness research, program evaluation, health
technology assessment and health economics; Identify types and
sources of data appropriate for generating valid and reliable
information about the delivery of health services; Learn about
strengths and weaknesses of various research designs used to study
health services and policy issues. The online version of the
Handbook of Health Services Research is in the format of a
dynamically updated knowledge base, offering search tools,
cross-referencing across chapters and linking to supplement data,
other major reference works and external articles. The Handbook of
Health Services Research is accessible at the level of graduate
students even if it is not their focus area. This includes students
with various backgrounds: medicine, public health, statistics,
economics, management or information technology.
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