On July 10, 2002, more than eight months before the invasion that toppled Saddam Husseinβs regime, eight American CIA operatives slipped into northern Iraq. They endured almost a year of being denied vital supplies by a NATO ally, Turkey, as they pursued a covert operation with profound consequences for both the War on Terror and the Iraq War: Operation Hotel California.
Operation Hotel California tells the inside story of the dangerous mission that paved the way for the Iraq invasionβand delivers the most blistering indictment to date by any American counterterrorism officer of the Bush administrationβs blunders vis-Γ -vis Iraq and al Qaeda. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Charles Faddis, the operationβs leader, and other team members, and featuring never-before-seen photos, Operation Hotel California is a riveting work that will shake Washington to the core.
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