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A memoir
Free Press
September 2006
On Sale: September 25, 2006
268 pages
ISBN: 0743283449
EAN: 9780743283441
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Non-Fiction Memoir
According to Time magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez
Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has
twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have
caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains
and cities, yet many others remain at large and active,
including Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri. Long locked
in a deadly embrace with its nuclear neighbor India,
Pakistan has come close to full-scale war on two occasions
since it first exploded a nuclear bomb in 1998. As President
Musharraf struggles for the security and political future of
his nation, the stakes could not be higher for the world at
large. It is unprecedented for a sitting head of state to write a
memoir as revelatory, detailed, and gripping as In the Line
of Fire. Here, for the first time, readers can get a
firsthand view of the war on terror in its central theater.
President Musharraf details the manhunts for Osama and
Zawahiri and their top lieutenants, complete with harrowing
cat-and-mouse games, informants, interceptions, and bloody
firefights. He tells the stories of the near-miss
assassination attempts, not only against himself but against
Shaukut Aziz (later elected prime minister) and one of his
top army officers (later the vice chief of army staff), and
of the abduction and beheading of Daniel Pearl -- as well as
the forensic and shoe-leather investigations that uncovered
the perpetrators. He details the army's mountain operations
that have swept several valleys clean, and he talks about
the areas of North Waziristan where al Qaeda is still operating. Yet the war on terror is just one of the many
headline-making subjects in In the Line of Fire. The full
story of the events that brought President Musharraf to
power in 1999 is told for the first time. He reveals new
details of the 1999 confrontation with India in Kashmir (the
Kargil conflict) and offers a proposal for resolving the
Kashmir dispute. He offers a portrait of Mullah Omar, with stories of
Pakistan's attempts to negotiate with him. Concerning A. Q.
Khan and his proliferation network, he explains what the
government knew and when it knew it, and he reveals
fascinating details of Khan's operations and the
investigations into them. In addition, President Musharraf takes many stances that
will make news. He calls for the Muslim world to recognize
Israel once a viable Palestinian state is created. He urges
the repeal of Pakistan's 1979 Hudood law. He calls for the
emancipation of women and for their full political equality
with men. He tells the sad story of Pakistan's experience
with democracy and what he has done to make it workable.
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