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Nov 20, 2024 | 
aijac.org.au | Steve Coll |Michael Shannon
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003by Steve CollPenguin Random House, 2024, 556 pp, $65.00Steve Coll, former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and a long-time staff writer for the New Yorker, is the author of a string of books, dating back to the late 1980s, on corporate America (The Deal of the Century, The Taking of Getty Oil) and on secret intelligence (Ghost Wars, Directorate S).
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Steve Coll |Ahmad Faruqui |Abbas Nasir |Ahmad Maudood Ausaf
The Achilles TrapBy Steve CollPenguinISBN: 978-0525562269576pp. The United States invaded Iraq in March 2003. In The Achilles Trap, Steve Coll, a professor of journalism at Columbia University and the author of nine books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the decisions that led to the war.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Steve Coll |Andrew Cockburn
Long before Bush and Blair invaded Iraq, many Iraqis suspected that foreign intelligence services were manipulating their country’s domestic affairs. Since the 1920s – when Gertrude Bell manoeuvred behind the scenes in the early days of the Iraqi state under the British mandate – otherwise inexplicable events were often attributed to the workings of ‘Abu Naji’, a quasi-mythical figure used as shorthand to refer to the meddling British, and later the Americans.
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May 26, 2024 | 
orwellfoundation.com | Steve Coll
The Achilles TrapPublished by: Allen Lane is a rigorous, expertly controlled account of what Steve Coll calls the “march to disaster”: the US’s decades-long dealings with Saddam Hussein, characterized by fateful miscalculations and misunderstandings on both sides – a “cascade of errors”, as Coll puts it – and culminating in the catastrophically misjudged American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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May 1, 2024 | 
wrmea.org | Election Year--All Senators |Steve Coll |Jack McGrath
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By Steve Coll, Penguin Press, 2024, hardcover, 576 pp.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
estadao.com.br | Steve Coll
THE NEW YORK TIMES - Os Estados Unidos cometeram seu pior erro de política externa da era do pós-Guerra Fria quando invadiram o Iraque em 2003 para desarmar Saddam Hussein de suas supostas armas de destruição em massa. A guerra que se seguiu cobrou um preço altíssimo em recursos e vidas iraquianas e americanas, além de ter fortalecido o Irã, energizando conflitos regionais indiretos que enredaram Washington no Oriente Médio, como o governo Biden redescobriu, dolorosamente.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
substack.news-items.com | John Ellis |Steve Coll
Episode 12 of the ‘Night Owls’ podcast features an interview with Steve Coll, author of ‘The Achilles Trap. Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the origins of America’s invasion of Iraq.” My podcast partner Joe Klein conducted the interview. It is well worth your time. Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Mr. Coll is the author of nine books. Four of them, each in their own way, concern the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Steve Coll
On the evening of 13 December 2003, nine months after the invasion of Iraq, a combat team from the US 4th Infantry Division arrived at a small farmhouse by the River Tigris, north of Baghdad. Soldiers pulled back a mat on a patio to reveal a narrow, chest-deep hole, out of which they dragged a dishevelled Saddam Hussein, a pistol tucked in his belt. ‘I am the president of Iraq, and I am willing to negotiate,’ he said.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Steve Coll
America committed its worst foreign policy mistake of the post-Cold War era when it invaded Iraq in 2003 to disarm Saddam Hussein of his supposed weapons of mass destruction. The war that followed exacted an appalling price in Iraqi and American lives and resources, and it also empowered Iran, energizing regional proxy conflicts that have entrapped Washington in the Middle East, as the Biden administration has rediscovered painfully.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
standupwithpete.libsyn.com | Steve Coll
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, postand promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for aslittle as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous soulsHey Friends!Here is a special AuthorInterview I did with Steve Coll whose new book is outtoday!Steve Collis one ofthe most important and respected journalists of our time and he isout with a new book.
