The Convenient Terrorist
Two Whistleblowers' Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies
John Kiriakou, Joseph Hickman
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The Convenient Terrorist
Two Whistleblowers' Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies
John Kiriakou, Joseph Hickman
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A startling spotlight on the darkest corners of America's "War on Terror, " where nothing is quite what it seems. The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of Abu Zubaydah, the first "high-value target" captured by the CIA after 9/11. But was Abu Zubaydah, who is still being indefinitely held by the United States under shadowy circumstances, the blue-ribbon capture that the Bush White House claimed he was? Authors John Kiriakou, who led the capture of Zubaydah, and Joseph Hickman, who took custody of him at Guantanamo, draw a far more complex and intriguing portrait of the al-Qaeda "mastermind" who became a symbol of torture and the "dark side" of US security. From a one-time American collaborator to a poster boy for waterboarding, Abu Zubaydah became a "convenient terrorist"—a way for US authorities to sell their "War on Terror" to the American people.