The Interrogator's War : Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaeda (Record no. 15022)
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| fixed length control field | 02153nam a22001577a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0719566193 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 958.1047 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Mackey, Chris and Miller, Greg |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Interrogator's War : Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaeda |
| Statement of responsibility | Chris Mackey and Greg Miller |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | GHQ, Rawalpindi |
| Name of publisher | Army Education Publishing House |
| Year of publication | 2006 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxvii,483 Pages |
| Other physical details | 24x16 cm |
| -- | HB |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Include Appendix, Epilogue and Map. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The methods of the US military in conducting the War on Terror have recently come under intense international scrutiny and criticism. But there is much that remains unclear about the realities on the ground, in those cramped cells in the midst of combat zones where terrorist suspects come head-to-head with trained interrogators. Now, for the first time, the inside story of this secret war is uncovered by Chris Mackey, a senior US Army interrogator in Afghanistan, who interviewed thousands of Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects, many of whom he sent to Guantanamo Bay. In Afghanistan the interrogators faced an enemy who, with tactics like sleeper cells and suicide bombers, were unlike any other they had seen. Working round the clock, Mackey and his team had to discard outmoded Cold War interrogation techniques and evolve breakthrough psychological strategies and complex mind games. But the interrogators too were under immense pressure; relentlessly pitching their wits against suspected fanatics, ever fearful that their prisoners might know of another 9/11, but constrained from unleashing their tempers by the Geneva Convention, it was not always just the prisoners who cracked.Mackey's compelling picture of the exhausting interrogations and pressure-cooker atmosphere which built up under the relentless Afghan sun gives a troubling insight into the temptations and obstacles in the path of sound military judgement. But it is also a testament to the strength of character of those many interrogators who remained professional, rational and played by the rules. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Afghan War, 2001- -- Military Intelligence |
| -- | Afghan War, 2001- -- Prisoners and Prisons, American |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2017-02-03 | MSL | 958.1047 M113I 2006 | 23922 | Books |