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Khalid Muhammad
"There are people in this world who deal only in extremes. It's naive to think that anything less than extreme measures will stop them."
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No Exit from Pakistan
Love Is Never Past Tense...
The One
The Jetstream of Success
The Lamb Of God
The Once and Future King
Under the Dome
The Janson Directive
Scarecrow
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
What a great look behind the curtain of what the CIA has become. For years, the CIA was respected as an intelligence organization, but the transformation that Robert Baer presents of how it was emasculated by politicos and career analysts gives me a deeper understanding on why the CIA has not been able to operate as effectively as it did in the past. From Lebanon to Tajikistan, his account of an intelligence organization more interested in photographs rather than on ground human intelligence destroys the impression that the world has of the CIA and explains why extraordinary rendition became part of the modus operandi.I'll be reading his other books about his intelligence career!
I didn't know that this was the basis for Syriana, which was a pleasant surprise.