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In Dec 2003, after one of the biggest, most competitive manhunts in history, US military forces captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit. Beset by body-double rumours and wrong alarms throughout a nine-month search, the Bush administration needed positive recognition of the prisoner before it might make the announcement that could rocket throughout the world. At the time John Nixon was a mature CIA command analyst who experienced spent years studying the Iraqi dictator. Called upon to help make the official Identification, Nixon seemed for telltale marks and tribal tattoo designs and asked Hussein a set of questions only he could answer. The person was indeed Saddam Hussein, but, as Nixon learned in the ensuing weeks, both he and America experienced greatly misinterpreted just who Saddam Hussein actually was. Debriefing the Leader presents a fantastic, candid portrait of 1 of your era's most notorious strongmen. Nixon, the first man to execute an extended interrogation of Hussein after his take, offers expert perception into the record and brain of America's most enigmatic enemy. After years of parsing Hussein's command from afar, Nixon faithfully recounts his debriefing classes and subsequently strips away the mythology bordering an similarly brutal and complex man. His accounts is not an apology but a sobering study of how preconceived ideas led Washington policymakers - and the Bush White House - astray. Unflinching and unprecedented, Debriefing the Leader exposes a fundamental misreading of 1 of the modern world's most central information and presents a new narrative that boldly counters the received accounts.
