According to the Lancet, 654,965 ‘excess deaths’ occurred in Iraq from 2003 to 2006 – approximately 2.5 per cent of the entire population. These figures have been disputed. Four years on, other estimates range from 95,000 to well over 1 million…
From the new book by Dominic Streatfeild, A History of the World since 9/11, published in February 2011 (UK) by Atlantic Books, August 2011 (US) by Bloomsbury Press.
Not long after Ghani’s death, a plaque arrived from the CDC in Atlanta. Signed by the Center’s president C.Charles Stokes, it announced that – in the light of his ‘extraordinary contributions and sacrifices’ – Abdul Ghani had been named a ‘Polio Eradication Hero’…
From the new book by Dominic Streatfeild, A History of the World since 9/11, published in February 2011 (UK) by Atlantic Books, August 2011 (US) by Bloomsbury Press.
What was the point in fighting a War on Terror if your own allies were busy boiling people alive?
From the new book by Dominic Streatfeild, A History of the World since 9/11, published in February 2011 (UK) by Atlantic Books, August 2011 (US) by Bloomsbury Press.
About the only thing the CIA man managed to convince the IAEA experts of was that, actually, he didn’t have the first clue what he was talking about… Another officer was so struck by Joe T’s initial briefing that he wondered whether the CIA man was trying to start a war…
From the new book by Dominic Streatfeild, A History of the World since 9/11, published in February 2011 (UK) by Atlantic Books, August 2011 (US) by Bloomsbury Press.
On 11 September – or perhaps more accurately, 17 September, when President Bush signed the CIA’s Memorandum of Notifcation – America had sneezed. The world had caught a cold…
From the new book by Dominic Streatfeild, A History of the World since 9/11, published in February 2011 (UK) by Atlantic Books, August 2011 (US) by Bloomsbury Press.
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