01741cam a2200337 4500 62253448 TxAuBib 20090121120000.0 080729s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008033756 9781599213668 trade 1599213664 trade DLC DLC ICrlF TxAuBib Tucker, Mike, ((Michael James).) Operation hotel California : the clandestine war inside Iraq / Mike Tucker, Charles Faddis. Guilford, CT : Lyons Press, 2009. xxii, 216 p. : map ; 24 cm. Map on endpapers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207) and index. Introduction : the counterterrorists -- Tracking al-Qaeda, Saddam, and WMD : Kurdistan, July-August, 2002 -- No joy on this frequency: Kurdistan, October-December 2002 -- Clandestine meetings with the Shia and the Kurds, and hunting Saddam's secret police -- Kurdistan, January-March 2003 -- the Kurds were brilliant and did not fail us: Kurdistan and Northern Iraq, March-May 2003 -- Epilogue : bleed with me -- Glossary. Offers a comprehensive overview of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, revealing the corruption and incompetence the proceeded the Bush administration's decision to invade. Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult. Adult. Brodart. Adult. Brodart. 20090121. United States Central Intelligence Agency Iraq. Iraq War, 2003-2011 Campaigns. Faddis, Charles. BSBPL